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“Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them”
John Milton quotes (English Poet, Historian and Scholar. Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets. 1608-1674)
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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.”

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
Emily Dickinson quotes (American Poet who has been called the New England mystic, 1830-1886)
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“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”
Anne Frank quotes (German Jewish girl Author of a diary of her family's two years in hiding during World War II, 1929-1945)
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“To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.”
Charles de Montesquieu quotes (French Politician and Philosopher, 1689-1755)
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“Books, the children of the brain.”
Jonathan Swift quotes (Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745)
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“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
John Greenleaf Whittier quotes (American Writer, 1807-1892)
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“Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.”
John Milton quotes (English Poet, Historian and Scholar. Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets. 1608-1674)
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“Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”
William Penn quotes (English Quaker leader and Founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)
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“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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