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[Quote No.25] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world." - Matthew Arnold
(1822–88) Poet and critic, born in England, UK
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[Quote No.27] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Winston Churchill
(1874–1965), British Prime Minister and later winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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[Quote No.66] Need Area: Fun > Books
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything that you need." - Marcus Cicero
(106–43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher,
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[Quote No.94] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight" - Charles de Montesquieu
[1689-1755] French political thinker
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[Quote No.95] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." - W. Somerset Maugham
(1874–1965) Novelist, playwright, and short-story writer, born in Paris, France.
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[Quote No.96] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man." - Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) printer, writer, scientist, statesman. Born January 17, 1706
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[Quote No.97] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading serves for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The crafty condemn it; the simple admire it; the wise use it. Reading makes a full man; conference, a ready man; and writing, an exact man. He that writes little needs a great memory; he that confers little, a present wit; and he that reads little, much cunning to seem to know that which he does not." - Francis Bacon
(1561–1626) Philosopher and statesman, born in London, UK
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[Quote No.149] Need Area: Fun > Books
"...every scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
[1803-1882] American essayist, poet, and philosopher.
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[Quote No.319] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Read travel books and travel anywhere at home!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.320] Need Area: Fun > Books
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice...and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart." - Gilbert Highet
[1906 - 1978], Scottish-born American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian
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[Quote No.321] Need Area: Fun > Books
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out." - Dylan Thomas
[1914 – 1953], Welsh poet and writer.
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[Quote No.322] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." - Walt Disney
[1901 – 1966], was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator.
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[Quote No.323] Need Area: Fun > Books
"An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books... and thence forward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy." - Augustine Birrell
[1850-1933], English author and politician
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[Quote No.324] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I am part of all that I have read." - John Kieran
[1892 - 1981], US journalist
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[Quote No.325] Need Area: Fun > Books
"In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read... it is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." - S.I. Hayakawa
[1906 – 1992], English professor, academic, United States Senator
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[Quote No.326] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to the book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it...Anyone who can read can learn how to read deeply and thus live more fully." - Norman Cousins
[1912 - 1990], US editor & essayist
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[Quote No.328] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Sir Richard Steele
[1672-1729], Pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff ,Irish-born English writer of plays and essays who founded and edited The Tatler (1709-1711) with Joseph Addison.
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[Quote No.329] Need Area: Fun > Books
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
[1803-1882] American essayist, poet, and philosopher.
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[Quote No.330] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Book love...is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures." - Anthony Trollope
[1815-1882], British novelist
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[Quote No.331] Need Area: Fun > Books
"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before." - Clifton Fadiman
[1904– 1999] noted intellectual, author, and radio and television personality
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[Quote No.333] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The end of reading is not more books but more life." - Holbrook Jackson
[1874 - 1948] British journalist, writer and publisher
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[Quote No.334] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries." - Rene Descartes
[1596-1650], famous French mathematician, scientist and philosopher.
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[Quote No.390] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. " - Paxton Hood
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[Quote No.757] Need Area: Fun > Books
"…a good library is a joyful place where the imagination runs free, and life is actively enriched. " - John K. Hutchens
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[Quote No.798] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together." - Jacques Maritain
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[Quote No.924] Need Area: Fun > Books
" Then I thought of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
" - Logan P. Smith
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[Quote No.942] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
" - Anais Nin
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[Quote No.1645] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I think I was living in my imagination … I was a reader.
" - Shimon Peres
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[Quote No.1660] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer." - James Welch
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[Quote No.1675] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination." - James A. Michener
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[Quote No.1850] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new." - Robert Service
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[Quote No.1924] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I'm very happy being at home with my family. I come home, I get in bed at nine o'clock, and I read." - Tracey Ullman
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[Quote No.1929] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." - Charles Baudelaire
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[Quote No.2104] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful…" - Saint Augustine
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[Quote No.2229] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us. " - Franz Kafka
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[Quote No.2328] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life." - Emmet Fox
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[Quote No.2493] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
" - Mark Haddon
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[Quote No.2661] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
" - Kenko Yoshida
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[Quote No.2680] Need Area: Fun > Books
"When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead [in books], who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation " - William Butler Yeats
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[Quote No.2697] Need Area: Fun > Books
"What is reading, but silent conversation." - Charles Lamb
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[Quote No.2732] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion." - Mark Van Doren
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[Quote No.2745] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
" - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.3230] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." - Mark Twain
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[Quote No.3231] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
" - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.3232] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.3233] Need Area: Fun > Books
"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
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[Quote No.3234] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
" - Voltaire
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[Quote No.3235] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good." - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.3236] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
" - Martin L. Perl
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[Quote No.3237] Need Area: Fun > Books
"If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company." - Lord Byron
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