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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