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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“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

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening