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"If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that? Not really [McCarthy's]. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully."	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."	Elbert Hubbard
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."	Groucho Marx
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."	Edmund Burke
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."	Albert Einstein
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."	Abraham Lincoln
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."	Mark Twain
"A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend."	Author Unknown
"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book."	Author Unknown
"Let books be your dining table, And you shall be full of delights Let them be your mattress And you shall sleep restful nights."	Author Unknown
"A dirty book is rarely dusty."	Author Unknown
"TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book."	Author Unknown
"If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions."	Author Unknown
"For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble."	Francis Bacon
"Live always in the best company when you read."	Sydney Smith
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."	Henry Ward Beecher
"There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs."	Henry Ward Beecher
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"	Henry Ward Beecher
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
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