We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
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You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Paul Sweeney
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau
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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
Books, j'adore 
Nice “citations”. Thanks for sharing it.
Thoreau… one of the best observers.
Love these, Angelou is an all-time favourite… In the words of Eco “We live for books!”
I don’t remember learning to read but I do remember loving it as a child. So, I think the love of reading should be a part of our lives before we are old enough remember learning. I look forward to reading your blog in the future!
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Priceless Kafka line.