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To pore over books in a dream was a fortunate sign—honour and riches won through study, the quiet pleasures of the mind. To labour over some intricate, hidden meaning foretold effort before reward. Sometimes the dream asks what knowledge you're being called to earn rather than simply be handed.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for book, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Pleasant pursuits, honor and riches to dream of studying them. For an author to dream of his works going to press, is a dream of caution; he will have much trouble in placing them before the public.
To dream of spending great study and time in solving some intricate subjects, and the hidden meaning of learned authors, is significant of honors well earned.
To see children at their books, denotes harmony and good conduct of the young.
To dream of old books, is a warning to shun evil in any form.
Fontaine, 1862
To be reading serious books, shows honor and station in life; to read lascivious books, shame and disgrace.