A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. --Swami Vivekananda

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

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A book is a gift you can open again and again.

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Luggage carries clothes, but travel carries the soul.

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Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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