Printing Books

Famous quotes containing the words printing and/or books:

“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;Mvainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)