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We read to know we are not alone.
We read to know we are not alone.
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
 I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
 When I am not walking, I am reading;
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 I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
 When I am not walking, I am reading;
  I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia), 
 The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
 Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
  Whose wit well read more 
 The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
 Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
  Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
   Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile. 
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it 
plain upon tables, that he may read more 
 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it 
plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 
 That he that readeth may run over it.
 [Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.]  
 That he that readeth may run over it.
 [Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.] 
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
 If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what 
books he read.
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 If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what 
books he read.
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,