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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. T...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These ...

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Stefan ZweigThe Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heaven...

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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know...

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A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a t...

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All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No...

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Eugene FieldThe Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company...

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He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any autho...

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The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday ...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very...

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