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“Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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“there are books . . . which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“I wouldn’t miss Mrs. Flowers, because she had given me her secret word which would help me all my life: books.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages—a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not fooling a soul”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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