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#1

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#2

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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#3

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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#4

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

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#5

“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

tags: literature, poetry, words

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#6

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: reading

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#7

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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#8

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: creativity, enlightenment, learning, reading, writing

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#9

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

tags: books, reader, reading, stories, story

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#10

“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: reading, winter

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#11

“In reading we must become creators.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: reading

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#12

“It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”
― Tracy Chevalier

tags: books, drowsiness, insomnia, reading, sleepy

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#13

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#14

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#15

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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#16

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

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#17

“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ”
― Kathleen Thompson Norris, Hands Full of Living

tags: books

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#18

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

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#19

“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
― Voltaire

tags: books

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#20

“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”
― Jane Hamilton

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#21

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-reading

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#22

“Books, the children of the brain.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings

tags: books

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#23

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books

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#24

“Books are the most tolerant of friends.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Gift

tags: books

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#25

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, love, reading

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#26

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#27

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#28

“The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

tags: women

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#29

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, men, women

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#30

“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
― Yves Saint Laurent

tags: cosmetics, fashion, makeup, women

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