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• Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

  Anna Quindlen

  Travel, Book, Home

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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• I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Inspiring, Book, Thinking

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.32, Dell

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• I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Education, Dream

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• I am a part of everything that I have read.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Better Life

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• Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mean, Eye, Keys

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy and other Addresses”

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• Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

  Diane Duane

  Book, Potato Chips, Potatoes

  Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Amusement, Wells

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Men, Religion

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

  Rene Descartes

  Wisdom, Book, Math

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  If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Book, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  Garrison Keillor

  Happiness, Christmas, Thank You

  Attributed to Keillor in "The Miracle of Language" by Richard Lederer, p. 149, 1999.

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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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• The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Writing, Soul

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• The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

  Tom Clancy

  Library, Way

  FaceBook post by Tom Clancy from Mar 11, 2014

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• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Education, Book, Age

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Book, Ignorance

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• A man is known by the books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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• I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day

  Gillian Anderson

  Good Day, Have A Great Day, Good Opportunity

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• Reading... a vacation for the mind.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Vacation, Mind

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• Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

  J. K. Rowling

  Happiness, Happy, Book

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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