“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
—Frederick Douglas
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“Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.”
—Gary Paulsen
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“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
—Emma Thompson
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“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky,
My pile of books is 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
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Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
— Lemony Snicket
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“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”
―Kate DiCamillo
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
—Joseph Addison
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
―Charlotte’s Web by E.B.White
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“And we knew that in all languages, there are words as warm as breath and others as cold as metal.”
―The Day Saida Arrived by
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“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
—Chinese Proverb