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  • "Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read."
    By: Unknown, Source
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  • "Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them."
    By: Unknown
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  • "Books are the shoes with which we tread the footsteps of great minds."
    By: Unknown
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  • "Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field in accordance with these rules, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires."
    By: Unattributed Author
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  • "1a \'a\ n, pl a's or as \'az\ often cap, often attrib (bef. 12c 1 a : the 1st letter of the English alphabet b : a representation of this letter c : a speech counterpart of orthographic a 2 : the 6th tone of a C-major scale 3 : a graphic device for reproducing the letter a 4 : one designated a esp. as the 1st in order or class 5 a : a grade rating a student's work as superior in quality b : one graded or rated with an A 6 : something shaped like the letter A - Unattributed Author"
    By: Unattributed Author
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  • "Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within the Spirit of the Game."
    By: Unattributed Author
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  • "A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
    By: Twain, Mark
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  • "The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."
    By: Twain, Mark
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  • "People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases."
    By: Twain, Mark
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  • "A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever."
    By: Tupper, Martin
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  • "There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"
    By: Tsvetaeva, Marina
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  • "One half who graduate from college never read another book."
    By: True, Herbert
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  • "Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."
    By: Trevelyan, G. M.
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  • "An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders."
    By: Traherne, Thomas
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  • "No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
    By: Townsend, Atwood H.
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  • "If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
    By: Toni Morrison
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