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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
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
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
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.: Paxton Hood
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.: Ralph Novak
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876

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