Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Love of books is the best of all.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
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