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The world is a book, and those who don't travel read only one page.

Saint Augustine

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Never judge a book by its cover.

Author unknown

10

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

4

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

4

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

3

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

3

I never feel lonely if I've got a book — they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.

Emilia Fox

3

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

bell hooks

3

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

Taslima Nasrin

3

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

2

Willie: There's more than one way to skin a cat.
ALF: You've been looking at my recipe book.

"ALF"

2

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

William Osler

2

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

Jane Yolen

2

'Classic'. A book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

2

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

George William Curtis

2

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Leigh Hunt

2

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Mark Twain

1

Don't judge a book by its cover.

American saying

1

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books — especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

John Wooden

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