Friday, August 13, 2010

A Refuge from the Miseries of Life

Life, According to Woody AllenImage by MookieLuv via FlickrTo acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. – W. Somerset Maugham




A library is thought in cold storage. – Herbert Samuel



The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. – Joseph Joubert



Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. – John Whitherspoon



Readers are of two sorts: one who carefully goes through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him. – Douglas Jerrold



He picked something valuable out of everything he read. – Pliny the Younger



The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. – Rene Descartes






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