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 A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.  ~Author Unknown

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 I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.  ~George Robert Gissing

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 "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.  ~François Mauriac

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To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.  ~Chinese Saying

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.  ~Anatole France

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“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”  ― Emilie Buchwald 

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