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A room without books is like a body without a soul. – GK Chesterton

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. – Francis Bacon

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

There is no friend as loyal as a book. – Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.…

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. – Dorothy Parker

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole…

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such…

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all. – Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. – Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

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