Libraries Books And Reading Quotes

• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Reading, Library

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Book, Reading

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Friendship, Book, Reading

  'Proverbial Philosophy' Series I (1838) 'Of Reading'

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• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

  Charles William Eliot

  Book, Reading, Library

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Library

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• There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Children, Book, Reading

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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

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• More people should use their library.

  Regis Philbin

  Reading, People, Library

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• Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

  Bernard Williams

  Sports, Book, Reading

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• A library should be like a pair of open arms.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Reading, Library, Pairs

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• Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Ruth Rendell

  Book, Reading, Life Is

  Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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• When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

  Jean Fritz

  Reading, Book, Library

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• Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

  Roger Ebert

  Reading, Library Research, Rats

  "Critical Eye". Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998.

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• Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reading, Literacy, Force

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Literary Remains”, p.316

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• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Reading Literature

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  Charles Kingsley

  Reading, Book, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1849). “Twenty-five Village Sermons”, p.254

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• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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• The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

  Harry Golden

  Beach, Book, Reading

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• A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

  Alvin Toffler

  Mind, Library, Libraries And Reading

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