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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

"Books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."

"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."
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"Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress."


"Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions."


"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"


"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."


"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"


"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
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