"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring"

Chappell, Warren on books - reading
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

Carlyle, Thomas on libraries
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"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

Bevan, Aneurin on books - reading
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"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

Whitman, Walt on books - reading   

"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."

Richter, Jean Paul on writers and writing   

"The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on books - reading   

"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."

Carlyle, Thomas on books - reading
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"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out."

Unknown, Source on opinions
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"Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it."

Unknown, Source on education
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"Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book."

Madonna on sex
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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

Hazlitt, William on books - reading
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"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."

Jackson, Holbrook on books - reading   

"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading."

Choate, Rufus on books - reading
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"I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. "

Adams, John on uncategorised
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"There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."

Wilde, Oscar on books - reading
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"Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read."

Unknown, Source on books - reading
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"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

Phelps, William Lyon on books - reading   

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."

Marcel, Anthony on books - reading