Books can only reveal us to ourselves and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service, we lay them aside.

Author: Henry David Thoreau

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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance, they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.