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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

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A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

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Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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