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Book Reading Quotes by Holbrook Jackson
- Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
- Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
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- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- Wear the old coat and buy the new book. — Austin Phelps
- I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. — Coolio
- I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the… — Arthur C. Clarke
- Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? — Karl Kraus
- Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. — Charles Kingsley
- In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti
- I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl
- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see… — Virginia Woolf
- Books succeed; and lives fail. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount… — Thomas Carlyle