Timeline for What's a word for a book that is read again and again like a bible?
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| Jul 2 at 18:58 | comment | added | TimR | @Jsw29: Not sure why you're focusing so much on the bible when that book was presented only as an example of things read and re-read, for insight or inspiration (mind-reading OP's "reminders") and the body of the question mentions "maxims, manifesto, or aphorisms". | |
| Jul 2 at 16:15 | comment | added | jsw29 | This may be close to what the OP has in mind, but the word motivational is nowadays so often used in business-related and popular-psychology contexts that it sounds odd to characterise something like the Bible as motivational, even though it is literally true. | |
| Jul 2 at 15:37 | comment | added | TimR | It's always a risk to venture an answer on a poor question. There's always somebody who takes issue anonymously and without offering any reason whatsoever. One of the shitty things about an otherwise valuable forum. | |
| Jul 2 at 10:30 | history | answered | TimR | CC BY-SA 4.0 |