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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
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“A home without books is a body without soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”
C.S. Lewis
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
B. F. Skinner
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
Charles W. Eliot
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
Garrison Keillor