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“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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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#5

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, books

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“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower

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#7

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books, humor, reading

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#8

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

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

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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#10

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#11

“I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.”
― Steven Wright

tags: humor

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#12

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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#13

“Books, the children of the brain.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings

tags: books

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