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Never read a book that is not a year old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries. — Gustave Flaubert

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. — Nick Cave

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered. — Carmela Dutra

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. — C.S. Lewis

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. — Wendell Berry

When a new book is published, read an old one. — Samuel Rogers

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. — Marilynne Robinson

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. — C.S. Lewis

I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books. — Nicholaa Spencer

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska

Old books are like Old friends — George R R Martin

Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose, Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands — Larry Moniz

Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought. — C.S. Lewis

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little — Voltaire

This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon. — Rebecca Raisin

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. — Joseph Joubert

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he's very smart. — Reese Witherspoon

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. — Bindi Irwin