"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   

"I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all."

Maugham, W. Somerset on books - reading   

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on books - reading   

"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   

"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 criticism   

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

Critchfield, Jim on books - reading   

"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   

"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   

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

Forster, Edward M. on books - reading   

"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
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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
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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   

"I cannot live without books."

Jefferson, Thomas on books - reading
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