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#1

“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
― Thomas Carlyle

tags: books, literacy, reading

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#2

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

tags: effort, perseverance

259 likes

#3

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47060 likes

#4

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27857 likes

#5

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

tags: communication

213 likes

#6

“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

tags: poetry, sentiment, tea

158 likes

#7

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, power-of-words

1709 likes

#8

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

41000 likes

#9

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

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

135512 likes

#10

“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

tags: books, reading

21528 likes

#11

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25520 likes

#12

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

11721 likes

#13

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7339 likes

#14

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20165 likes

#15

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

tags: books, children

7960 likes

#16

“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

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13926 likes

#17

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

8043 likes

#18

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

10854 likes

#19

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

8571 likes

#20

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

tags: books, house, simile, windows

3193 likes

#21

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: books, learning, love, serenity

2989 likes

#22

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, originality, unique

2755 likes

#23

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9097 likes

#24

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

tags: reading-secrets

3713 likes

#25

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, inspirational

2484 likes

#26

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, books

3543 likes

#27

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

tags: books, reading

2402 likes

#28

“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”
― Michelle Obama

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#29

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
― Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

tags: prayer

280 likes

#30

“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better”
― Barack Obama

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