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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

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Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

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No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

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

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

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When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

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One must be an inventor to read well.

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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

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