Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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- The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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- Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.