He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.
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The Coming Race
by
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.
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Agnes Grey
by
Anne Bronte
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one."
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A Dance with Dragons
by
George R. R. Martin
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?
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The Warden
by
Anthony Trollope
"Sleep is good," he said. "And books are better."
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A Clash of Kings
by
George R. R. Martin
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
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A Game of Thrones
by
George R. R. Martin
"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
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Between the Acts
by
Virginia Woolf
Every page of every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.
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Martin Eden
by
Jack London
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
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Pride and Prejudice
by
Jane Austen
"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde