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Encourage and pursue an inclination to reading early in life; it is laying up a treasure for the latter part of it… – Countess Dowager of Carlisle, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims addressed to Young

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino

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