When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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 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...
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
Words are the voice of the heart.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
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