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#1

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

5048 likes

#2

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27752 likes

#3

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

6541 likes

#4

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

10422 likes

#5

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

tags: philosophers, philosophy

1301 likes

#6

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

82053 likes

#7

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23109 likes

#8

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135973 likes

#9

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

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

41070 likes

#10

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

827 likes

#11

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29749 likes

#12

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13931 likes

#13

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

5884 likes

#14

“Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.”
― Andrew Lang, Adventures Among Books

tags: reading

111 likes

#15

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

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#16

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

23678 likes

#17

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

4069 likes

#18

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

3307 likes

#19

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: reading

3103 likes

#20

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

tags: reading

1480 likes

#21

“Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads, or Fuji apples, books, once consumed, do not disappear.”
― John Sutherland, How to Read a Novel

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#22

“Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: christopher, paolini

832 likes

#23

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown

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#24

“Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: librarians, libraries

324 likes

#25

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, reading, truth

7662 likes

#26

“Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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#27

“Every single one of us is missing something. We are all too powerful, too extraordinary, and don't you see it's because we're riddled with vacancies? We are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal - that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

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#28

“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

tags: alien-perspective, animal-pov, book-title, human-nature, humanity, humans

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