Book Reading Quotes - Page 2

• I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

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• What is reading but silent conversation?

  Walter Savage Landor

  Book, Reading, Library

  Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.497

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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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• No two persons ever read the same book.

  Edmund Wilson

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspirational Life, Book

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Children, Book

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• 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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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

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

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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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• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Reading, Mind

  1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

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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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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Nature, Book, Reading

  "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

  Daniel Handler

  Educational, Book, Reading

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• A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Reading, Imagination

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Workout, Book, New Relationship

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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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 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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• There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Unhappy Childhood

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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