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Horace Mann

"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."

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"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."

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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

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"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."

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"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

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"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

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"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

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"There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
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