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  • John Witherspoon Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Never read any book that is not a year old.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean Paul Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Evelyn Waugh News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.
    Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Camille Paglia No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bob Riley No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • George Eliot No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Shirley Williams No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bill Maris Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Virginia Woolf Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • R. H. Hutton Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
    R. H. Hutton
     
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  • Cate Blanchett Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Carl Sagan One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Laurence Sterne One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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