Quotes 141 till 160 of 274.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
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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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