BOOKS AND READING

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BOOKS AND READING

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• Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old
  friends to trust, and old authors to read.
  Francis Bacon
• Tell me what you read, and I will tell you what
  you are. J.W.Goethe
• What is the use of a book, thought Alice,
  without pictures or conversation? Lewis Carroll

No furniture is so charming as books, even if
you never open them and read a single word.
Syndey Smith I would sooner read a time-table or
a catalogue than nothing at all.
W.S.Maugham Never read any book that is not a
year old. Ralph Emerson
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The Russian State National Library

• Public Libraries are a feast of ideas to which
  all are invited. Alexander Herzen
• The pride and the glory of a public library is in
  the wide circulation of books among the readers.
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the
  body.
• Books are indispensible to any civilization

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Classes of Books

• Light / heavy reading
• Fiction / non-fiction
• Travel books, romances, thrillers
• Adventure, love stories
• Detective stories
• Fairy-tales and fantasies
• Ghost stories and mysteries
• Animal stories and family stories

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• True learning can be achieved only through
  intensive reading.
• Learning is the most joyful occupation in life.
• In books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the
  whole human race.

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Famous English Writers Poets