"Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian...
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"Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." - The Raven
"Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights
Let them be your mattress
And you shall sleep restful nights."
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." ~Mark Twain
"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one
on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
"Very few things really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds - justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner." ~ The Vampire Lestat in "Interview With A Vampire"
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." ~ Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
"Books are immortal sons deifying their sires." ~Plato
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