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Does anyone have any good quotes that have to do with books and/or reading?

It would be nice if it was short because it has to fit on a stepping stone the size of a pizza box but it doesn't have to be.

Update:

The stepping stone is for the school court-yard and will be there for a really long time so I wanna make it good

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  • 2 decades ago
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    Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

    Austin Phelps

    There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

    Christopher Morley

    I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

    Charles De Secondat

    How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

    Henry David Thoreau

    Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

    John Witherspoon

    There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

    Oscar Wilde

    Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

    Sir Richard Steele

  • Belie
    Lv 7
    2 decades ago

    "Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read." - Isaiah 34:16

    "Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books." - Robert Bolt

    "Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future." - Jim Bishop

    "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain

    The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." - St. Augustine

    "I cannot live without books." - Thomas Jefferson

    "I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx

    "Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty." - George Bernard Shaw

    "Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred." - Gunther Grass

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    outside of a dog a book is mans best friend, inside a dog its to dark to read. G Marx's

  • 2 decades ago

    Depending on who the stepping stone is for...

    "He who knows how to read andd does not read is no better off than he who cannot read."

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  • 2 decades ago

    Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper

  • 2 decades ago

    BEN FRANKLIN HAD MANY

    A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED

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