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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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Words are the voice of the heart.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

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

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Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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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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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

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Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

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I'm good at reading people.

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

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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