“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling
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“Reading with children makes an intimate, human connection that teaches that child what it means to be alive as one of many beings on the planet.”
—Anna Dewdney
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Ray Bradbury
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“All good books have one thing in common—they are truer than if they had really happened.”
—Ernest Hemingway
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“‘There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
—Walt Disney
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“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”
—Jackie Kennedy
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“I you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
—Albert Einstein
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“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.”
—Malorie Blackman
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child.”
—Anita Merina