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My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
| 2 |
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
| 3 |
A room without books is like a body without a soul |
| 4 |
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary |
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 6 |
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free |
| 7 |
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly |
| 8 |
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world |
| 9 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 10 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 11 |
Some books leave us free and some books make us free |
| 12 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 13 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 14 |
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries |
| 15 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 16 |
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them |
| 17 |
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 18 |
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading |
| 19 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 20 |
Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities |
| 21 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 22 |
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 23 |
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned |
| 24 |
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
| 25 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 26 |
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 |
| 27 |
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island |
| 28 |
Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you |
| 29 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 30 |
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well |
| 31 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 32 |
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 33 |
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
| 34 |
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read |
| 35 |
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 36 |
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world |
| 37 |
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 38 |
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live |
| 39 |
Books are a uniquely portable magic |
| 40 |
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 41 |
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 |
| 42 |
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 43 |
Books may well be the only true magic |
| 44 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 45 |
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book |
| 46 |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 47 |
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet |
| 48 |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 49 |
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere |
| 50 |
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads |
