Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Books differ in how deeply they deserve to be read and digested.
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of pa…
— Dr. Channing
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— Charles Caleb Colton
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
— Joseph Brodsky
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— The Kalends
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— Unknown
