Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

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Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.

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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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