“It reads better than it lives”
“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”
“Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.”
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”