To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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In modeling: He with better looks is more in demand than he who has read better books.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.

Philippa Gregory

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The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now

Philippa Gregory

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The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now.

Philippa Gregory

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Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning the pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.

J.K. Rowling

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