A book that is shut is but a block.

Author: Thomas Fuller

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Despair gives courage to a coward.

He that hopes no good, fears no ill.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.

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.