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“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward

“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
― William Glasser

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“For a moment Anne's heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert's gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face. It was as if a veil that had hung before her inner consciousness had been lifted, giving to her view a revelation of unsuspected feelings and realities. Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps. . . perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. ”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
― J.K. Rowling

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte