To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
-W. Somerset Maugham
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
--Logan Pearsall Smith--
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--
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
--Montesquieu--
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
--Walter Pater--
The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.
--Lesley Conger--
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested:
that is, some books are to be read only in parts,
others to be read, but not curiously, and some few
to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
~ Francis Bacon ~
I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books;
they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.
~ Scott Corbett ~
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature
have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read,
we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
~ Austin Phelps ~
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