Confucius Quotes, Reading Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Reading Quotes , Years Quotes

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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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

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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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I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Reading Quotes , Book Quotes

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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

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

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The heart is the only book worth reading.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

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Tags : Alan Tudyk Quotes , Reading Quotes , Rumination Quotes

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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