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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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Joseph Brodsky

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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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Isaac Disraeli

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.
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Italian Proverb

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Joseph Joubert

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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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Hadas In A Review.

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
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Dorothy Parker

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
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Source Unknown

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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William Wycherley

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
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Arthur Schopenhauer

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Victor Hugo

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To read too many books is harmful.
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Mao Zedong

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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W. Fusselman

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Harper Lee

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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Henry Fielding

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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James Russell Lowell

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Wendell Phillips

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
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James T. Mccay

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What is reading, but silent conversation.
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Walter Savage Landor

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Samuel Johnson

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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Hilaire Belloc

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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Desiderius Erasmus

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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Henry Ward Beecher

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
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Sir William Temple

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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
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Fred Stoller

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