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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak