World Reading Day inspires people to turn off the TV, logoff the net and ignore the myriad other distractions of modern life and enjoy reading a book instead.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
People who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. S. I. Hayakawa. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. John Witherspoon. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.Arthur Schopenhauer ow.ly/Ri5Dl
Books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else. George W Bush. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. Erica Jong ow.ly/Ri5Dl
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Logan Pearsall Smith. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. Thomas Carlyle. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. Stan Barstow. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries. Descartes. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. Denis Parsons Burkitt. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.Oscar Wilde. ow.ly/Ri5Dl
The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. Malcolm X ow.ly/Ri5Dl
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson ow.ly/Ri5Dl