To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.
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