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“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations