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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

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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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Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. – Holbrook Jackson

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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But a book is never just a book. – The Old Sage Bookshop in Prescott, Arizona

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Memories are doing funny things to us. – Milos Forman

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Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will. – Author Unknown

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. – Noam Chomsky

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