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TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. Open your child’s imagination. Open a book. ~Author Unknown

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke

Never judge a book by its movie. ~J.W. Eagan

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison

Books are a uniquely portable magic. ~Stephen King

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Richard Steele

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

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

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~Mary Wortley Montagu

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ~W.E. Channing

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ~William Styron

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre

A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross

Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ~Christopher Morley

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TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. ...