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“I give you better than proof, gentlemen; I give you my positive opinion.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Reading changes our lives, and our lives change our reading.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
― Jane Austen

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man

“The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.”
― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
― Muhammad Ali

“I object to that conversation!" interposed the old woman. "I was not capable enough to hear what I said, and what is said out of my hearing is not evidence.”
― Thomas Hardy , The Mayor of Casterbridge

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Cole’s the eternal pessimist. He doesn’t even believe there’s a glass.”
― Micheal Maxwell, Diamonds and Cole

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”
― Charlemagne