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If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all |
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. |
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It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little |
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. |
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. |
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power |
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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. |
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