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“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.”
― George Steiner

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

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

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters