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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher

Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Marie de Sevigne

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Paul Sweeney



Anyone who has a book collection wants for nothing.

--CiceroBooks are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculations at a standstill.

--Barbara Tuchman

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

--S.I. Hiyakawa

A library is thought in cold storage. ~Herbert Samuel

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~Jorge Luis Borges


A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. ~Lemony Snicket


Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer