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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
Abraham Lincoln
"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
Benjamin Franklin
"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
"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."
Christopher Morley
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Dorothy Parker
"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
Edmund Burke
"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."
Elbert Hubbard
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
Ernest Hemingway
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
Francis Bacon
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
GK Chesterton
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
GK Chesterton
"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
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
Marcel Proust
"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
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Mark Twain
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
Mark Twain
"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
Mark Twain
"A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever."
Martin Farquhar Tupper
"The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films."
Michael Votto
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