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Book is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Anna Book (born 1970), Swedish singer

Asher Book (born 1988), American dancer, singer-songwriter and actor

Clifford H. Book (1895–1954), lawyer in Melbourne, Australia

Dan Book (born 1983), American songwriter and record producer

Ed Book (born 1970), New Zealand basketball player

Ian Book (born 1998), American football player

Kim Book (born 1946), English footballer and manager

Lauren Book (born 1984), American politician

Nils-Ole Book (born 1986), German footballer

Raymond Book (1925–2018), American politician

Steve Book (born 1969), English footballer

Todd Book (born 1968), American politician

Tony Book (1934–2025), English footballer and manager

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“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
“There is an undeniable correlation between functional illiteracy, poverty, and crime—in fact, eleven states predict their future need for prison cells based on the reading levels of their fourth graders. Books can change lives, yes, and so can the lack of them.”
— Roxanne J. Coady in Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannessen (eds.) The Book That Changed My Life (2006), , p. xvi.
“You recollect what Hobbes used to say, "that if he had read as many books as other men, he should have been as ignorant as they," clearly implying that reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
— Arthur Helps, quoting his pupil "Ellesmere", Friends in Council (1847), Book II, Chapter I: Reading, p. 276.
“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (1930), Ch. 3: Competition.
“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”
— Francis Bacon, Proposition touching Amendment of Laws.
“They are for company the best friends, in Doubt's Counsellors, in Damps Comforters, Time's Prospective the Home Traveller's Ship or Horse, the busie Man's best Recreation, the Opiate of idle Weariness, the Mindes best Ordinary, Nature's Garden and Seed-plot of Immortality.”
— Bulstrode Whitelock, Zootamia.

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