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• In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Beer, Civilization

  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 real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  W. H. Auden

  Real, Reading, Reader

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• The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Education, Reading, Important

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

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Reading, Library, Entertainment

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

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• It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

  Neil Gaiman

  Motivational, Appreciation, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Apr 14, 2010

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• Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

  Anne Rice

  Men, Giving, Interesting

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.353, Ballantine Books

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• I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

  Trust, Believe, Reading

  1900 Speech on'The Disappearance of Literature' at the Nineteenth Century Club, 20 Nov. Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Speeches (1910).

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• A book worth reading is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Reading, Buying, Reader

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• Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

  Bell Hooks

  Inspirational, Reading, Ideas

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.106, Routledge

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• Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Humanity, Print

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• I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

  Jane Austen

  Reading, House, Library

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 03]”, p.52, Jane Austen

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• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

  George R. R. Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam

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• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Beer, Firsts

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

  John Milton

  Reading, Spirit, Masters

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Reading, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 27, 2016

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• Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

  Dawn Addams

  Funny, Reading, Memorable

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• While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Believe, Voice, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.157, Ultramarine Publishing

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• There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Real

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.213, Melville House

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• For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

  Anne Lamott

  Motivational, Reading, Mean

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.15, Anchor

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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

  Reading, Writing, Beer

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

  Joseph Addison

  Legacy, Genius, Mankind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.216

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

  Charles Kingsley

  Reading, Men, Wonderful

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

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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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• Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

  Arnold Lobel

  Sky, Long, Ceilings

  Arnold Lobel, “Books To the Ceiling”

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• God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

  William Ellery Channing

  God, Spiritual, Reading

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

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