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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 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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"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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"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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"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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