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~ Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. ~

~ Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn ~

Joseph Addison

~ 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. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man. ~

Francis Bacon

~ Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~

Elizabeth Hardwick

~ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ~

Allan Bloom

~ The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. ~

Charles Scribner, Jr.

~ Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. ~

Jean Rhys

~ Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~

P. J. O'Rourke

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