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

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

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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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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. – E.S. Barrett

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