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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.: Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
Never judge a book by its movie.: J. W. Eagan
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Oh for a book and a shady nook...: John Wilson (1785 - 1854)
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.: John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.: Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.: Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.: Lenore Hershey
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
Learn as much by writing as by reading.: Lord Acton
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.: Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
I have read your book and much like it.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
This book fills a much-needed gap.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
A good book is enjoyable. A great book sets off a bomb inside of you.: Ned Hepburn, Ned Hepburn Tumbler, 11-11-2011
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface

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