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“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
C.S. Lewis
“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
“I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”
George Herbert
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.”
Proverb
“We Learn . . .10% of what we read20% of what we hear30% of what we see50% of what we see and hear70% of what we discuss80% of what we experience95% of what we teach others.”
William Glasser
“Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”
William Styron
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
“Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading”
George Macaulay Trevelyan
