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Quotes about books - reading
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. (Adams Dawn)
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. (Adams Dawn)
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. (Adams Dawn)
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. (Adams Dawn)
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. (Adams Dawn)
I read part of it all the way through. (Adams Dawn)
Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word. (Adams Dawn)
I have read your book and much like it. (Adams Dawn)
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. (Adams Dawn)
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. (Adams Dawn)
In a 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. (Adams Dawn)
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. (Adams Dawn)
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other. (Adams Dawn)
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. (Adams Dawn)
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow. (Adams Dawn)
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. (Adams Dawn)
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul. (Adams Dawn)
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. (Adams Dawn)
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. (Adams Dawn)
A book might be written on the injustice of the just. (Adams Dawn)
Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000. (Adams Dawn)
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. (Adams Dawn)
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. (Adams Dawn)
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. (Adams Dawn)
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. (Adams Dawn)
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