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Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln

Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. - Confucius

Trinity College Library, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland

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

Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries. - Descartes

Jay Walker's Private Library

He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. - Barrow
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Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam, Holland

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss,

Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada

Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. - Hazel Rochman

Strahov Monastery - Theological Library, Prague, Czech Republic

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. - Harry S. Truman 9

Herzog August Library, Wolfenbttel, Germany

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Richard Steele

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Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. - Somerset Maugham

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Wiblingen Monastary Library, Ulm, Germany It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. - S.I. Hayakawa

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Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. - Joseph Addison
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Central Library, Seattle

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book. Anonymous

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Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. Anonymous

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George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. Rufus Choate

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National Library, Belarus

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. Montesquieu
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Sansovino Library, Venice, Italy

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one. 19 George R.R. Martin,

Old British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England

Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz,

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Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, anothers soul. Joyce Carol Oates
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The End

Reading expands the Horizon of your mind. Vast Knowledge you will gain over space and time.

With Metta, Bro. Oh Teik Bin

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