To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
The man who never reads lives only one.
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.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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