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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.”
“A home without books is a body without soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
B. F. Skinner
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”
C.S. Lewis
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
“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