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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
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To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
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A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
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