Introduction to R&W Flashcards

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Reading early in life gives a youngster a multitude of friends to guide intellectual and emotional growth.

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Caroll Gray

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2
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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Richard Sleete

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3
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After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

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Chinese Proverb

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4
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Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

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Frederick Douglas

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5
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The delights of reading imparts the vivacity of youth even in old age.

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Isaac d’Israelli

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6
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Reading makes a full man.

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Francis Bacon

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7
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Books are treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations.

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Henry David Thoreau

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8
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them.

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Ray Bradbury

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9
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The book is man’s greatest invention so far.

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Carollina Maria De Jesus

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10
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A man without a book is as a body without a soul.

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Cicero

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11
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A book is a garden carried in a pocket.

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Unknown

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12
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

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George R.R. Martin

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13
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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Stephen King

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14
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The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.

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Benjamin Franklin

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15
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on treasure island.

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Walt Disney

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16
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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George Barnard Shaw