If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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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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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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

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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ― Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

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