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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

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

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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

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

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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

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Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

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Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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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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When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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