~ Books and Reading Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

John Harington

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[highlight-text]Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

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[highlight-text]My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

Dylan Thomas

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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

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[highlight-text]The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope

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[highlight-text]If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

Sir Arthur Helps

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[highlight-text]All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Richard De Bury

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[highlight-text]If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

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[highlight-text]A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

John Milton

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[highlight-text]Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

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[highlight-text]When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman

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[highlight-text]Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening seldom sinful and permanently personal.

Lenore Hershey

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[highlight-text]The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Benjamin Disraeli

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[highlight-text]The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Ross MacDonald

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[highlight-text]Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

Samuel Johnson