Famous quotes containing the words book and/or deal:
“I don’t know but a book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf—at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel—you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety—& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)