Favorite Quotes on Books and Reading

"A book reads better which is our own, and has been so long known to us that we know the topography of its blots and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins." - Charles Lamb

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." - C. S. Lewis

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." - GK Chesterton

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature." - P. G. Wodehouse

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." - Joseph Addison

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library." - Albert Einstein

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." - Louisa May Alcott


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