Inspirational Reading Quotes

• 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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• 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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• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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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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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be
  I had a Mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Reading

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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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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• Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

  Marilyn Jager Adams

  Children, Reading, Skills

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences.

  William Styron

  Book, Should, Bibliophiles

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

  William Styron

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The man who never reads lives only one.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Men, Ice

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

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• Richer than I you can never be,
  I had a mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Reading, Mother And Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Ice, Fantasy

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

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

  Charles William Eliot

  Book, Reading, Library

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Education, Book

  "Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1998.

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "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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• You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

  Confucius

  Reading, Ignorance, Self

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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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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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