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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
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Lord Henry P. Brougham

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Lord Chesterfield

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Live always in the best company when you read.
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Sydney Smith

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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
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Jim Rohn

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
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Mark Twain

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
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Thomas Hood

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
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Edward Gibbon

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Never judge a book by its movie.
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J. W. Eagan

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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Charles Caleb Colton

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.
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Paul Davies

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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No furniture is so charming as books.
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Sydney Smith

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Ezra Pound

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
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Noah Porter

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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Robert Frost

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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
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William Shakespeare

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
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Anthony Marcel

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

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Herbert True

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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Benjamin Jowett

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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Steven Spielberg

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