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"From your parents you learn love and laughter
and how to put one foot before the other.
But when books are opened you discover you have wings."
Helen Hayes
"Books may well be the only true magic."
Alice Hoffman
"If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it."
Toni Morrison
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
Thomas Carlyle
"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures;
one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."
Vincent van Gogh
"Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better book can there be than the book of humanity?"
Gandhi
""The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
"Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself."
Maxim Gorky
"The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page."
Author Unknown
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.
Wendell Ford
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
Ezra Pound
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney
"Books have a life of their own."
Latin Proverb
“When I am reading a book, whether wise or sill, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.”
Swift
"Everyone who know how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, multiple the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting."
Aldous Huxley
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
Henry Ward Beecher
""The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
"Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself."
Maxim Gorky
"The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page."
Author Unknown
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.
Wendell Ford
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
Ezra Pound
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Francis Bacon
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
Mortimer Jerome Adler
"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Thomas Rowan
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life."
Norman Cousins
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Books give us wisdom in words!"
Catherine Pulsifer,
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
Confucius
"The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page."
Author Unknown
"I cannot live without books."
Thomas Jefferson
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney
"Books have a life of their own."
Latin Proverb
“When I am reading a book, whether wise or sill, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.”
Swift
"Everyone who know how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, multiple the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting."
Aldous Huxley
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Book: A garden carried in a pocket."
Arabian Proverb
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read."
Mark Twain
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
Henry Ward Beecher
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Cicero
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