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“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
― Thomas a Kempis

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
― Maud Casey

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander