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“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

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

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

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

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.”

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”

“My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.”

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”