"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it."

Drew, Elizabeth on Literature
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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on Books - Reading
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"Live always in the best company when you read."

Smith, Sydney on Books - Reading
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"I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all."

Maugham, W. Somerset on Books - Reading
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on Books - Reading
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"O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred."

Unknown, Source on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

Proust, Marcel on Childhood
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

Hemingway, Ernest on Friends and Friendship
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"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."

France, Anatole on History and Historians
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"Books are not men and yet they stay alive."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on Books - Reading
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."

Auden, W. H. on Books - Reading
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"What is reading, but silent conversation."

Landor, Walter Savage on Books - Reading
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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

Hemingway, Ernest on Comedy and Comedians
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"He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming."

Balfour, Arthur James on Books - Reading
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"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind."

Chambers, Robert on Books - Reading
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"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

Whipple, Edwin P. on Books - Reading
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"The covers of this book are too far apart."

Bierce, Ambrose on Critics and Criticism
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"You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff."

Critchfield, Jim on Books - Reading
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"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Books - Reading
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"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life."

Hugo, Victor on Books - Reading
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"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever."

Tupper, Martin on Books - Reading
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"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water."

Twain, Mark on Books - Reading
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"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

Steinbeck, John on Writers and Writing
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"The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity."

Carlyle, Thomas on Books - Reading
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"Never judge a book by its movie."

Eagan, J. W. on Books - Reading
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"A book is the only immortality."

Choate, Rufus on Books - Reading
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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

Hugo, Victor on Books - Reading
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"Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?"

Weil, Simone on Reality
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"One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it."

Forster, Edward M. on Books - Reading
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it."

Jefferson, Thomas on Newspapers
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"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on Life and Living
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"A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."

Brooke, Rupert on Books - Reading
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"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

Hayakawa, S. I. on Life and Living
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Books - Reading
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"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on Books - Reading
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"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."

Keller, Helen on Literature
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"A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Rogers, Will on Learning
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"Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book."

Rohn, Jim on Books - Reading
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"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again."

Doren, Carl Van on Books - Classics
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"I cannot live without books."

Jefferson, Thomas on Books - Reading
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