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If Hollywood decided to make a movie about your life, what would it look like? What genre would it be? Action/Adventure? Drama? Comedy? Who would play you? Tom Cruise? Denzel Washington? For most of u...

Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

The exiled Niccolo Machiavelli actually changed into his best clothes to enter into his nightly reading conversation with the ancients.

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.