| 1 | You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 2 | A good book is an event in my life |
| 3 | People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading |
| 4 | Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well |
| 5 | I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 6 | Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
| 7 | Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read |
| 8 | Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading |
| 11 | You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore |
| 12 | Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere |
| 13 | If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 14 | Reading brings us unknown friends |
| 15 | Sleep is good, he said, and books are better |
| 16 | You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me |
| 17 | Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 18 | In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 19 | Once you learn to read, you will be forever free |
| 20 | Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home |
| 21 | I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
| 22 | My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
| 23 | Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 24 | Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 25 | Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world |
| 26 | The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 27 | Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you |
| 28 | If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 29 | A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 30 | Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 31 | Children are made readers on the laps of their parents |
| 32 | Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself |
| 33 | The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 34 | Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map |
| 35 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
| 36 | There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island |
| 37 | Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it |
| 38 | You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them |
| 39 | Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 40 | Books are a uniquely portable magic |
| 41 | Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 42 | There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 43 | Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries |
| 44 | The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 45 | ′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
| 46 | A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 47 | Books may well be the only true magic |
| 48 | Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 49 | The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go |
| 50 | Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks |
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A room without books is like a body without a soul
Once upon a time, in a small town named Fernton, lived a wise old man named Eldridge. Eldridge was known throughout the town for his vast collection of books
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