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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
  - Benjamin Franklin

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
  - Sarah Margaret Fuller, author (1810-1850)

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others.
  - Clarence Day, writer, (1874-1935)

When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before.
  - Clifton Fadiman, editor and critic (1904-1999)

My library / Was dukedom large enough.
  - William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616)

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
  - Thomas Mann, German author (1875-1955)

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
  - Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1900-1971)

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
  - James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
  - Anton Chekhov, short-story writer and dramatist (1860-1904)