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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." W. Somerset Maugham 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." W. Somerset Maugham 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
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