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"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?"
-Albert Einstein
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
-Albert Einstein
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
-Voltaire
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"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
-Mark Twain
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"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
-Mark Twain
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"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
-Mark Twain
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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."
-Oscar Wilde
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"The ancient books are everything I want; their wisdom is the balm that soothes my pain."
-Moses Ibn Ezra
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"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
-Charles De Secondat
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"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
-William Shakespeare
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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
-Horace Mann
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"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."
-Horace Mann
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"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
-Michel de Montaigne
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"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
-Desiderius Erasmus
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
-Sir Francis Bacon
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
-G. K. Chesterton
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
-G. K. Chesterton
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"Books, the children of the brain."
-Jonathan Swift
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"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."
-Christopher Morley
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"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."
-Christopher Morley
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"I read part of it all the way through."
-Samuel Goldwyn
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
-Jane Austen
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
-Cicero
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"There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people."
-Augusto Roa Bastos
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