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“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it”

Elizabeth Drew quotes (American Writer, b.1935)

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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”

Elizabeth Hardwick quotes

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“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”

Charles de Montesquieu quotes (French Politician and Philosopher, 1689-1755)

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“"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.”

Francois Muriac quotes

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“In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.”

S. I. Hayakawa quotes

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“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”

Anthony Trollope quotes

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“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”

Jean Rhys quotes (West Indian Novelist. 1894-1979)

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“The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one”

Oliver Goldsmith quotes (Irish born British Essayist, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1730-1774)

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“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all”

Francois Fenelon quotes

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“My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity”

Malcolm X quotes (American black militant leader who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s, 1925-1965)

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“Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”

Charles Scribner, Jr. quotes

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