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Title: Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of


1
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so
proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading
of useful and entertaining authors.
2
To feel most beautifully alive means to be
reading something beautiful, ready always to
apprehend in the flow of language the sudden
flash of poetry.
3
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but
it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
4
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers
of the book are like a roof and four walls. What
is to happen next will take place within the four
walls of the story. And this is possible because
the story's voice makes everything its own.
5
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the
vision and strengthens our most fatal
tendency--the belief that the here and now is all
there is.
6
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book a
good head cannot read amiss in every book he
finds passages which seem confidences or asides
hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for
his ear.
7
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an
idea of what he says, but to go off with him and
travel in his company.
8
What is reading but silent conversation?
9
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to
read. One does not love breathing.
10
A man ought to read just as inclination leads
him, for what he reads as a task will do him
little good.
11
Readers are plentiful thinkers are rare.
12
I have never known any distress that an hour's
reading did not relieve.
13
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and
extinguishes the natural candle, which is the
reason of so many senseless scholars in the
world.
14
There are books so alive that you're always
afraid that while you weren't reading, the book
has gone and changed, has shifted like a river
while you went on living, it went on living too,
and like a river moved on and moved away. No one
has stepped twice into the same river. But did
anyone ever step twice into the same book?
15
Cover your bookcases with rugs and linens of fine
quality preserve them from dampness and mice and
injury for it is your books that are your true
treasure.
16
Never refuse to lend books to anyone who cannot
afford to purchase them, but lend books only to
those who can be trusted to return them.
17
If you have one child who does not like to lend
books, and another child who does, leave your
library to the second, even if that child is
younger.
18
If you drop gold and books, pick up the books
first, then the gold.
19
My pen is my harp and my lyre my library is my
garden and my orchard.
20
Make books your companions let your bookshelves
be your gardens bask in their beauty, gather
their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices
and myrrh. And when your soul be weary, change
from garden to garden, and from prospect to
prospect.
21
Three possessions should you prize a field, a
friend, and a book.
22
"Human beings can lose their lives in libraries.
They ought to be warned."
23
"Libraries will get you through times of no money
better than money will get you through times of
no libraries."
24
"The death of a library, any library, suggests
that the community has lost its soul."
25
"Many of the greatest adventurers of our
age...didn't travel much further than...a
library."
26
"A library doesn't need windows. A library is a
window."
27
"Libraries ...house our dreams."
28
Good children's literature appeals not only
tothe child in the adult, but to the adult in
the child.
29
Learn as much by writing as by reading. 
30
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the
manfar better than through mortal friends.
31
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her
brain.
32
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good
life.
33
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the
body.
34
That is a good book which is opened
withexpectation and closed in profit.
35
Books are men of higher staturethe only men
that speak aloud for future times to hear.
36
Books are not made for furniture,but there is
nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a
house.
37
Where is human nature so weak as in the
bookstore?
38
Books, I found, had the power to make timestand
still, retreat or fly into the future.
39
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a
computer screen,is that you can take it to bed
with you.
40
You don't have to burn books to destroy a
culture.Just get people to stop reading them.
41
The closest we will ever come to an orderly
universe is a good library.
42
It is well to read everything of something, and
something of everything.
43
When I got my library card, that was when my
life began.
44
Children are made readers on the laps of their
parents.
45
There is no substitute for books in the life of a
child.
46
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
47
A room without books is like a body without a
soul.
48
I often feel sorry for people who don't read good
booksthey are missing a chance to lead an extra
life.
49
You are wise, witty and wonderful,but you spend
too much time reading this sort of stuff.
50
The man who is fond of books is usually a manof
lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
51
There is more treasure in books than in all the
pirate's loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney
52
Never judge a book by its movie.
53
Books are the quietest and most constant of
friendsthey are the most accessible and wisest
of counselors,and the most patient of teachers.
54
I read, much of the night, and go south in the
winter.
55
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we
should ask him what books he reads.
56
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome
oneon a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
57
What a school thinks about its library is a
measureof what it feels about education.
58
I am a part of everything that I have read.
59
Books are the bees which carry the quickening
pollenfrom one to another mind.
60
I divide all readers into two classesThose who
read to rememberand those who read to forget.
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