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    Benedict of Nursia
    “Ora et labora.”
    ― St. Benedict
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    Benedict of Nursia
    “Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.”
    ― Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
    tags: idleness, reading, work
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    Benedict of Nursia
    “The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.”
    ― Saint Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
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    Ignatius of Loyola
    “Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.”
    ― Saint Ignatius of Loyola
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
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    John Wayne
    “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
    ― John Wayne
    tags: bravery, courage
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    John Wayne
    “You're short on ears and long on mouth.”
    ― John Wayne
    tags: listening
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    John Wayne
    “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”
    ― John Wayne
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    John Wayne
    “Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.”
    ― John Wayne
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    John Wayne
    “A man's got to do what a man's got to do.”
    ― John Wayne
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    John Wayne
    “If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.”
    ― John Wayne
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    John Piper
    “Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”
    ― John Piper, A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life
    tags: books, john-piper, reading-books
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    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Aman Jassal
    “A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.”
    ― Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love
    tags: book, book-lover, book-lovers, book-quotes, books, books-reading, read, reader, readers, reading, reading-books, reading-for-life, reading-habits, reading-motivation, reading-quotes
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
    23581 likes



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