A book worth reading is worth buying. John Ruskin
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. Will Rogers
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis
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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. Marcus Garvey
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. Gloria Steinem
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C. S. Lewis
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. James Madison
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.Mary Oliver
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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