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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Martin Tupper
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
The book you don't read won't help.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Sir Christopher Wren
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Raoul Vaneigem
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Sir Arthur Keith
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
John Harington
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
E.N. Kirk
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
George Bernard Shaw
Read much, but not many books.
Benjamin Franklin
... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
John Green
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.
Virginia Woolf
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us
Thomas Carlyle
