608 – “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

–Charles W Eliot

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604 – “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

–William Somerset Maugham

564 – “Books to the ceiling, books to the sky, my pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by time I read them.”

–Arnold Lobel

540 – “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

–Mason Cooley [Attributed]

471 – “Librarians are the generals in the War on Ignorance.”

–anonymous

460 – “I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”

–Tahereh Mafi [Attributed]

449 – “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”

–Jojen Reed in George R R Martin’s A Dance with Dragons