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A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. – Unknown

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books. – Grenville Kleiser

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy. – Edward P. Morgan

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. – Forsyth and Rada

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will. – Grenville Kleiser

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. – Mark Twain

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. – Unknown

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles W. Eliot

A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. – William Styron

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. – Author Unknown

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. – Grenville Kleiser

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. – Groucho Marx

A good book has no ending. – R.D. Cumming

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Sir Richard Steele

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. – Lemony Snicket

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries. – Descartes

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. – Oscar Wilde

Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. – Walt Disney

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