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“The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them”
Mark Twain
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
B. F. Skinner
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
“A home without books is a body without soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Every burned book enlightens the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Francis Bacon Sr.