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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
– Anatole France

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  3. When he admires the man he calls his father: a man slightly above the scum of the earth-”what does that speak about he who admires him? – Terry a ONeal
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  7. If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Anatole France
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  15. Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. – Anatole France
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  21. France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound. – Victor Hugo
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  23. One reads so as not to believe everything one reads. – Aaron Haspel
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  26. Everybody says I am NOBODY,and you know NOBODY is Perfect. – shaikh mustafa
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  39. The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang
  40. She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions. – Vladimir Nabokov

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