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“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
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“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.”
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“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
Paul Sweeney quotes
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“No two persons ever read the same book.”
Edmund Wilson quotes
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“The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one”
Oliver Goldsmith quotes (Irish born British Essayist, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1730-1774)
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“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.”
Thomas Carlyle quotes (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)
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“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 quotes (American University President of Harvard University for 40 years, 1834-1926)
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic”
Stephen King quotes (American Writer, best known for his horror novels. b.1947)
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“The book you don't read can't help”
Jim Rohn quotes (American Speaker and Author. He is famous for motivational audio programs for Business and Life. )
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“You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.”
Charles Jones quotes
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