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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,491 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,880 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
6,893 people liked it

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: books, reading
2,070 people liked it

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

tags: books, journey, reading, travel
660 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
3,003 people liked it

"You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."
— Maurice Sendak

tags: children
3 people liked it

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. "
— Maya Angelou

tags: children, reading, teaching
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"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children
1,006 people liked it

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
— Emilie Buchwald

tags: children, parenting, reading
57 people liked it

"I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them."
— Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)

tags: books, child, children
16 people liked it

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