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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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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  C. S. Lewis

  Respect, Healing, Writing

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• Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

  Neil Gaiman

  World, Cheaper, Great Gifts

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• We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Grieving, Sea

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

  Mark Twain

  Somewhere Else, People, Wish

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• Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Reading, Mirrors

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Heart, Sleep

  "Society and Solitude". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Success", 1870.

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• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Attention, Granted

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

  Roald Dahl

  Positive Attitude, Ugly, Good Attitude

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.150, Penguin

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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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• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Party, Reading

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• May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• Literature is my Utopia

  Helen Keller

  Reading, Literature, Literacy

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.65, 谷月社

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• Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

  Marcel Proust

  Reading, Kind, Instruments

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

  Joseph Addison

  Legacy, Generations, Genius

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

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  Harper Lee

  Bible, Christian, Thinking

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature History, Civilization, Lighthouse

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Moving Forward

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• Books are the mirrors of the soul.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Mirrors, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1835, Delphi Classics

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• Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

  Stephen King

  Perfect, Batteries, Dollars

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• Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Writing, Good Friend, Select

  Louisa May Alcott (2001). “Little Women”, p.584, Broadview Press

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  If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Two

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.597, Modern Library

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• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  Victor Hugo

  Reading, Healing, Fire

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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