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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.: Sir Richard Steele
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.: Spanish Proverb
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.: G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962)
Spreading himself like a green bay tree.: Bible, Psalm xxxvii. 35.
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

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