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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Intentions”
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1891
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often returned with two.”
Victor Hugo
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“Les Misérables”
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1862
“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”
Mark Twain
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“Following the Equator”
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1897
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
,
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
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1890
“a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it”
Henry Miller
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“Tropic of Cancer”
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1934
“I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Jane Austen
,
“Northanger Abbey”
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1817
“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.”
J. K. Rowling
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“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
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2003
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
Charles Dickens
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“Our Mutual Friend”
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1865
“to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.”
Terry Pratchett
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“Guards! Guards!”
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1989
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Following the Equator
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Our Mutual Friend
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