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Favorite Reading Quotes

December 14, 2011 by Leanne Sowul 2 Comments

 

I’m dipping into some favorite reading quotes today. What’s your favorite quote about books?

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” -Samuel Johnson

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” -Groucho Marx
“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” -Hazel Rochman
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” -Edmund Burke
“To read is to fly; it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” -A.C. Grayling
“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” -Frederick Douglass
“We read to know we are not alone.” – C.S. Lewis

 

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  1. Anonymous says

    December 15, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    Trial comment 1

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  2. Anonymous says

    December 15, 2011 at 6:35 pm

    Now for the real deal! How about, “To watch is human, to read divine!”?

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