20 most beautiful libraries of the world. Selection of Quotes on "Reading"

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2. Abbey Library St.
Gallen, Switzerland
A capacity and
taste for reading
gives access to
whatever has
already been
discovered by
others.
- Abraham
Lincoln
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3. Real Gabinete
Portugues De Leitura,
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
No matter how
busy you may
think you are, you
must find time for
reading, or
surrender yourself
to self-chosen
ignorance.
- Confucius
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4. Trinity College Library,
AKA, The Long Room,
Dublin, Ireland
The habit of reading
is the only
enjoyment in which
there is no alloy; it
lasts when all other
pleasures fade.
- Anthony Trollope
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5. Melk Monastery
Library, Melk, Austria
The reading of all
good books is
like conversation
with the finest
men of the past
centuries.
- Descartes
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6. Jay Walker's Private
Library
He that loves a book will
never want a faithful
friend, a wholesome
counselor, a cheerful
companion, an effectual
comforter. By study, by
reading, by thinking, one
may innocently divert
and pleasantly entertain
himself, as in all
weathers, as in all
fortunes.
- Barrow
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7. Rijkmuseum Library,
Amsterdam, Holland
The more you read,
the more things you
will know. The more
that you learn, the
more places you'll go.
- Dr. Seuss,
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8. Library of Parliament,
Ottawa, Canada
Reading takes us
away from home,
but more
important, it finds
homes for us
everywhere.”
- Hazel Rochman
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9. Strahov Monastery - Theological Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
- Harry S. Truman 9

10. Herzog August
Library,
Wolfenbüttel,
Germany
Reading is
to the mind
what
exercise is
to the body.
- Richard
Steele
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11. Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a
refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
- Somerset Maugham 11

12. Wiblingen
Monastary Library,
Ulm, Germany
It is not true we
have only one life
to love, if we can
read, we can live
as many lives and
as many kinds of
lives as we wish.
- S.I. Hayakawa
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13. Stiftsbibliothek
Klosterneuburg,
Klosterneuburg,
Austria
Of all the
diversions of life,
there is none so
proper to fill up its
empty spaces as
the reading of
useful and
entertaining
authors.
- Joseph Addison
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14. Central Library, Seattle
Each time we re-read a
book we get more out
of it because we put
more into it; a different
person is reading it,
and therefore it is a
different book.
Anonymous
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15. Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do
anything else, read all that you can.
Anonymous 15

16. George Peabody
Library,
Baltimore, Maryland,
USA
Happy is he who
has laid up in his
youth, and held
fast in all fortune,
a genuine and
passionate love of
reading.
Rufus Choate
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17. National Library,
Belarus
Don't join the book
burners... Don't be
afraid to go in your
library and read
every book.
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
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18. Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading
did not relieve. Montesquieu
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19. Sansovino Library, Venice, Italy
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said
Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, 19

20. Old British Reading Room, British
Museum, London, England
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
― Fran Lebowitz,
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21. Library of
Congress,
Washington,
DC, US
Reading is the
sole means by
which we slip,
involuntarily,
often helplessly,
into another's
skin, another's
voice,
another’s soul.
― Joyce Carol
Oates
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22. The End Reading expands the Horizon of your mind.
Vast Knowledge you will gain over space and time.
With Metta,
Bro. Oh Teik Bin
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