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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."
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"Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?"

"Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind."

"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."

"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."

"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"
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