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• A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.

  Lois Ehlert

  Sleep, Discovery, Ideas

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• There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Can Not

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• The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Jewels, Library, Treasure

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  Read in order to live.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Reading, Order, Library

  Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”

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• A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

  Jeremy Collier

  Reading, Men, Stronger

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

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• There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Funny, Reading

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Reading, Literacy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Workout, New Relationship, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Inspirational, Sweet

  "Morituri Salutamus" st. 21 (1875)

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• In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Past, Soul

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

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• For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  John Milton

  Life, Soul, Censorship

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Reading, Reading Books, Book Reading

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

  Gilbert Highet

  Political, Curiosity, Mind

  Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated

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• I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Reading, Library

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Books may well be the only true magic.

  Alice Hoffman

  Inspirational, Reading, Kids

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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

  Life, Reading, New Beginnings

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Reading'.

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• Books and marriage go ill together.

  Moliere

  Reading, Single Life, Together

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• The place that does
  Contain my books, the best companions, is
  To me a glorious court, where hourly I
  Converse with the, old sages and philosophers;
  And sometimes for variety, I confer
  With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
  Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
  Unto a strict account; and in my fancy,
  Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.

  John William Fletcher

  Kings, Victory, Fancy

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• The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

  Theodore Parker

  Education, Reading, Knowledge

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" y Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, (p. 496), 2007.

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  You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reading, Long, Tea

  "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

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• A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Blessed, Heart, Companion

  "A Man Made of Money".

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• It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

  Alain de Botton

  Giving, Feelings, Might

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• If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Mean, Hands

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