It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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.
What is reading but silent conversation?
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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