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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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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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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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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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I've gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I've become much more aware of structure than ever before. Also, you really weigh every word. There's no closer reading then when you read to translate.

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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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Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

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I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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

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

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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

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