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20 most beautiful libraries of the world.Selection of Quotes on "Reading"
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Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been
discovered by others.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
No matter how busy you may
think you are, you must find time for
reading, or surrender yourself
to self-chosen ignorance. - Confucius
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Trinity College Library, AKA, The Long Room,
Dublin, Ireland
The habit of reading is the only
enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other
pleasures fade. - Anthony Trollope
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Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria
The reading of all good books is
like conversation with the finest
men of the past centuries.
- Descartes
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Jay Walker's Private Library
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful
companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by
reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert
and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all
weathers, as in all fortunes. - Barrow
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Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam, Holland
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the
more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss,
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Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada
Reading takes us away from home,
but more important, it finds
homes for us everywhere.”
- Hazel Rochman
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Strahov Monastery - Theological Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” - Harry S. Truman
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Herzog August Library,
Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Reading is to the mind
what exercise is to the body. - Richard
Steele
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Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
- Somerset Maugham
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Wiblingen Monastary Library,
Ulm, Germany
It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live
as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. - S.I. Hayakawa
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Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg,
Austria
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so
proper to fill up its empty spaces as
the reading of useful and
entertaining authors.
- Joseph Addison
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Central Library, Seattle
Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put
more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a
different book. Anonymous
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Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
Anonymous
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George Peabody Library,
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held
fast in all fortune, a genuine and
passionate love of reading.
Rufus Choate
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National Library, Belarus
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your
library and read every book.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. Montesquieu
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Sansovino Library, Venice, Italy
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin,
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Old British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England
Think before you speak. Read before you think.― Fran Lebowitz,
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Library of Congress,
Washington, DC, US
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,
often helplessly, into another's skin, another's
voice, another’s soul. ― Joyce Carol
Oates
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The End Reading expands the Horizon of your mind.Vast Knowledge you will gain over space and time.
With Metta,Bro. Oh Teik Bin