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Quotes about books - reading
Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. (Adams Dawn)
What is reading, but silent conversation. (Adams Dawn)
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. (Adams Dawn)
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. (Adams Dawn)
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. (Adams Dawn)
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. (Adams Dawn)
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. (Adams Dawn)
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings --as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. (Adams Dawn)
All books are either dreams or swords. (Adams Dawn)
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. (Adams Dawn)
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. (Adams Dawn)
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. (Adams Dawn)
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. (Adams Dawn)
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. (Adams Dawn)
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. (Adams Dawn)
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices. (Adams Dawn)
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. (Adams Dawn)
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. (Adams Dawn)
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. (Adams Dawn)
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. (Adams Dawn)
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. (Adams Dawn)
What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read. (Adams Dawn)
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. (Adams Dawn)
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. (Adams Dawn)
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. (Adams Dawn)
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