"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." — Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice  (via mslizzybennet)

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"I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library!" — Jorge Luis Borges

"A dose of poison can do its work but once, but a bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations." — W. John Murray

“Chill out, it’s just a book.” 

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"Books say: she did this because.
Life says: she did this.
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t …
Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own." — Julian Barnes

"The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." — Dr Seuss

"I’ve travelled the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners.
I’ve been where no one’s been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks,
All on one library ticket,
To the wonderful world of books." — Anonymous

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." — Oscar Wilde

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting." — Aldous Huxley