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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
Scholars and Scholarship
James Russell Lowell

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Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Losers and Losing
F. L. Lucan

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.
Freedom
Malcolm X

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Habit
Horace Mann

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Books - Reading
Katherine Mansfield

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Books - Reading
Anthony Marcel

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Books - Reading
Harriet Martineau

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Books - Reading
W. Somerset Maugham

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Age and Aging
W. Somerset Maugham

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
Books - Reading
James T. Mccay

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
Law and Lawyers
David Mellor

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Books - Reading
H. L. Mencken

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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
Food and Eating
Henry Miller

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
Books - Reading
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
Travel and Tourism
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Suffering
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
Example
Dwight L. Moody

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Books - Reading
John Morely

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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Writers and Writing
V. S. Naipaul

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Humor
Lord Nelson

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Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.
Evangelism
D. T. Niles

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Read good, big important things.
Books - Reading
Peggy Noonan

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He who does not hope to win has already lost.
Hope
Jose Joaquin Olmedo

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Space
Blaise Pascal

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Books - Reading
William Lyon Phelps

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun