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"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

Carter, Angela on books - reading
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"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books."

Carlyle, Thomas on books - reading
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"The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them."

Butler, Samuel on books - reading
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