“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 kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.”
Mark Twain
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
Napoléon Bonaparte
“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
Albert Einstein
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Cicero
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
Garrison Keillor
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”
Kate DiCamillo
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
Emilie Buchwald
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” Confucius
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”
Jacqueline Kennedy
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
Roald Dahl
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