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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

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If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

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T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

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A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!

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I should have written books instead of reading them.

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