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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. – W. Somerset Maugham

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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. – Hugh Blair

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Sit bona librorum copia. – Horace (There are plenty of good books. Let me have a good supply of books.)

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