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When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China. - Jean Fritz
Peter The Great Quotes
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Jean Fritz
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.― Groucho Marx
Dog Quotes
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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. ― Madeleine L'Engle
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Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. ― Dave Eggers
Books
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ― Neil Gaiman
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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain
Books
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Friendship
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PENGUIN BOOKS THE TRUTHS WE HOLD Kamala D. ― Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris Quotes
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Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books. ― Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss Quotes
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Dr. Seuss
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. ― Booker T. Washington
Booker T Washington Quotes
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Booker T. Washington
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars. -- Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Quotes
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
― Paul Valéry
Books
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People
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
― Robert Louis Stevenson
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The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
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He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ― Saul Bellow
Powerful Quotes About Life
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She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home. ― Victoria Connelly, Wish You Were Here
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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them. — Mark Twain
Short Happy Positive Quotes
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So many books, so little time. ― Frank Zappa
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A room without books is like a body without a soul. ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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