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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

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If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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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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We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

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

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Reading maketh a full man.

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

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I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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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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