"With a book he was regardless of time.
There is no other enjoyment like reading
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"[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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"A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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