Marcus Tullius Cicero
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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Mark Twain
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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Jorge Luis Borges
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Groucho Marx
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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Lemony Snicket
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
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Mark Twain
Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.
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Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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John Green
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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Joseph Brodsky
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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Roald Dahl
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
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Fran Lebowitz
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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J.W. Eagan
Never judge a book by its movie.
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Marcus Tullius
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Humphrey Carpenter
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
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Virginia Woolf
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Cassandra Clare
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
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J.K. Rowling
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
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Jules Verne
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Franz Kafka
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Hermann Hesse
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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Italo Calvino
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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David Balladic
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
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Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Anon
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
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Horace Mann
A house without books is like a room without windows.
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Jesse Lee Bennett
Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
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Vera Nazarian
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
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Harold Bloom
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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John Waters
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
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Forster, E.M.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
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Johnson, Samuel
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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Milton, John
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
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Tupper
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
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Voltaire
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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