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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon l

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint…. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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[R]eading time is still limited no matter how many commitments of work or friendship I am willing to ditch in favor of the pages. – Francis Spufford (b.1964), “Confessions of an English Fiction Eater,” The Child

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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. – John Lyly

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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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