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Quote DB :: Reading Search in this category Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." Mark Twain "A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever." Martin Farquhar Tupper "A room without books is like a body without a soul." GK Chesterton "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." Robertson Davies "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." Kurt Vonnegut "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all." Abraham Lincoln "But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." Oscar Wilde "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Benjamin Franklin "Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself." Marcel Proust "Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own." Mark Twain "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." Charles Caleb Colton "More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read." Oscar Wilde "Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature." T.S. Eliot "Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon "Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke "The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." Oliver Wendell Holmes "The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."" Oliver Wendell Holmes "The covers of this book are too far apart." Ambrose Bierce "The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader." Robert Frost "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." Mark Twain 1 2 Next >> Browse Reading quotes by Author: Abraham Lincoln Ambrose Bierce Benjamin Franklin Charles Caleb Colton Christopher Morley Dorothy Parker Edmund Burke Elbert Hubbard Ernest Hemingway Francis Bacon GK Chesterton Kurt Vonnegut Marcel Proust Mark Twain Martin Farquhar Tupper Michael Votto Oliver Wendell Holmes Oscar Wilde Robert Frost Robertson Davies Thomas Jefferson T.S. Eliot Victor Hugo Winston Churchill

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