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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries |
| 2 |
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own |
| 3 |
Books are a uniquely portable magic |
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Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you |
| 5 |
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly |
| 6 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 7 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 8 |
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks |
| 9 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 10 |
Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 11 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 12 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 13 |
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
| 14 |
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 |
| 15 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 16 |
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting |
| 17 |
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world |
| 18 |
A room without books is like a body without a soul |
| 19 |
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 20 |
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story |
| 21 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
| 22 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 23 |
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say |
| 24 |
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live |
| 25 |
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 26 |
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 27 |
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 28 |
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 29 |
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading |
| 30 |
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 31 |
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 32 |
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read |
| 33 |
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading |
| 34 |
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
| 35 |
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned |
| 36 |
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change |
| 37 |
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while |
| 38 |
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others |
| 39 |
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book |
| 40 |
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 |
| 41 |
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet |
| 42 |
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you |
| 43 |
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one |
| 44 |
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 |
| 45 |
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours |
| 46 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 47 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 48 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 49 |
A good book is an event in my life |
| 50 |
Reading brings us unknown friends |
