Moral Illumination :: Quote Of The Week

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” - Elizabeth Hardwick

No Advantage :: Quote Of The Week

“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” - Mark Twain

A charming echo :: Quote Of The Week

“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote Of The Week

“From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world’s life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind’s own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.” - Helen E. Haines

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Happy reading!