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• I've given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
• My only books Were woman's looks,-- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Time I 've lost in wooing...
• Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? -- Karl Krau
• I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books, I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
  -- Ibse...
• Whenever I read "Time" or "Newsweek" or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward.
  But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind? -- Edward Abbey...
• My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.