When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius ErasmusRead
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read 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.
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
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