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Quote by Jane Austen
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much s

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

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Pleasure
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company. – Jane Austen

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good
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

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When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin

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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. – Barrow

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. – W. H. Auden

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. – W. H. Auden

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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. – Freeman Dyson

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One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. – Proverb

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