Book Lust

Famous quotes containing the words book and/or lust:

“No man ever walked down to posterity with so small a book under his arm.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“When I heard the Earth-song,
I was no longer brave;
My avarice cooled
Like lust in the chill of the grave.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)