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One profound line can change a life.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
So many books, so little time.