To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
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...
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.
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