We read to know we are not alone.~C.S Lewis                                                  

        Read, Read, Read~ William Faulkner

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

      Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind~ Robert Chambers                       

A library is a hospital for the mind ~Anonymous Good books are the warehouse of ideas.~ H.G. Wells
  
     A book worth reading is worth buying. ~ John Rushkin                

             Outside a dog, a book is mans best friend.  Inside a dog its too dark to read.  ~ Groucho Marx 
                                                                                                     
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.~ Charles Eliott

        When  I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.~  Erasmus
           (This one is totally me !  I constantly have a stack of "To Read" books.  If I don't, I get nervous...its a 
             sickness I'm sure.)

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.~Anonymous

      Live always in the best company when you read.~Sydney Smith

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.~Logan Pearsall Smith

     The person who deserves the most pity is the lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.~Benjamin Franklin

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader ~ Margaret Fuller

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^{Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books
Are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard
                       by the time I read them.~ Arnold Lobel}

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

            Books are not men and yet they stay alive.~Stephen Vincent Benet

  That is a good book that is opened with expectation and closed in profit.~Amos Bronson Alcott

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read....It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.~ S.I Hayakawa

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.~Henry Ward Beecher

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.~ Mary Schmich