| 1 |
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island |
| 2 |
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 3 |
Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 4 |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 5 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
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There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 7 |
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 8 |
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 9 |
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks |
| 10 |
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world |
| 11 |
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back |
| 12 |
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 13 |
A room without books is like a body without a soul |
| 14 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 15 |
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore |
| 16 |
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them |
| 17 |
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free |
| 18 |
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me |
| 19 |
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 20 |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
| 21 |
A good book is an event in my life |
| 22 |
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed |
| 23 |
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live |
| 24 |
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you |
| 25 |
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time |
| 26 |
Books are a uniquely portable magic |
| 27 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 28 |
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 29 |
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map |
| 30 |
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading |
| 31 |
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
| 32 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 33 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 34 |
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
| 35 |
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read |
| 36 |
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall |
| 37 |
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading |
| 38 |
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book |
| 39 |
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know |
| 40 |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark |
| 41 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 42 |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 43 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 44 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 45 |
Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you |
| 46 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 47 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 48 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 49 |
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend |
| 50 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
