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• You cannot open a book without learning something.

  Confucius

  Educational, Reading, Learning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

  Jeremy Collier

  Age, Entertainment, Lovers

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

  Anatole Broyard

  Three, Should, Ifs

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• Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

  Louise Rosenblatt

  Reading, Writing, Giving

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• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Literacy, Book Love

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• Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

  Doris Lessing

  Children, Lying, Inspiration

  "Grande dame of letters who’s not going quietly". Interview with Amanda Craig, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 23, 2003.

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• Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

  William Feather

  Good Friend, Leaving, Finishing

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Reading, Reading Good Books

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Reading

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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• Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Order, Literature

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Teaching, Learning

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

  Clarence Day

  Fall, Heart, Men

  "The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend". Book by Clarence day, 1920.

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• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reading, Writing, Use

  Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

  Mortimer Adler

  Way, Reader, Great Author

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Inspirational, Reading, Order

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• So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

  Roald Dahl

  Motivational, Wall, Reading

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Ignorance

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

  Angela Carter

  Reading, Writing, Literacy

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• A man is known by the books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Men, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Books And Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Reading, Ideas, History

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Reading

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

  William Feather

  Healing, Mind, Opening Your Mind

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