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Don't ask me
who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's
digested, and I've been reading all my life.
-- Giorgos Seferis
O, let my
books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking
breast.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
How can you
dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything
else first?
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
Here, my dear
Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling ''Peregrine
Pickle'' under the toilette --throw ''Roderick Random'' into
the closet --put ''The Innocent Adultery'' into ''The Whole
Duty of Man''; thrust ''Lord Aimworth'' under the sofa! cram
''Ovid'' behind the bolster; there --put ''The Man of
Feeling'' into your pocket. Now for them.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish
Dramatist
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What is the
most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the
house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The
smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.
-- Andre Sinyavsky
People say
that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American
Essayist, Aphorist
Then I though
of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ...
this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable
vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American
Essayist, Aphorist
No furniture
is so charming as books.
-- Sydney Smith
1771-1845, British Writer,
Clergyman
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