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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasti

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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There are many persons pretending to have a refined literary taste, who seldom read any books but those which are fashionable… – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind. – G.E. Woodberry

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

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