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Books - reading

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Lamb, Charles

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Eco, Umberto

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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Kingsley, Charles

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.

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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Faulkner, William

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fuller, Margaret

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joubert, Joseph

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Whitman, Walt

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Benjamin, Walter

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Berger, John

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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Luther, Martin

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Marcel, Anthony

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.