Quotes 121 till 140 of 221.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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