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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman -
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives whith another who shares the same books.
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W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
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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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... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
Schneier, Bruce (2005) -
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
Number9Dream (2007) 365 -
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
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A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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