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Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Charles W. Eliot
Books are the quietest and most constant friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
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Cicero
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Ezra Pound
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.
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Helen Hayes
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.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Margaret Fuller
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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Mark Twain
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read.
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Mortimer Jerome Adler
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.
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Swift
When I am reading a book, whether wise or sill, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Theodore Parker
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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