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“Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge