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- In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. 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.
- S. I. Hayakawa
- Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
- Sir John Denham
- If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Read much, but not many books.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
- William E. Channing
- 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.
- Rupert Brooke
- Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
- He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
- Author Unknown
- He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.
- Hindoo Maxim
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