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50 quotesMy reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Government
Thomas Jefferson
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Tact and Tactfulness
Sarah Orne Jewett
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Books - Reading
Charles Lamb
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
Books - Reading
Walter Savage Landor
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Selfishness
Oscar Levant
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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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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Books - Reading
Katherine Mansfield
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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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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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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Books - Reading
Ezra Pound
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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Learning
Will Rogers
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Books - Reading
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Books - Reading
Charles de Secondat
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Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Writers and Writing
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Silence
Dame Edith Sitwell
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Books - Reading
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Commitment
Spanish Proverb
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Scholars and Scholarship
J. M. Synge
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Health
Mark Twain
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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.
Books - Reading
Source Unknown
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Giving
Edith Wharton
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Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Writers and Writing
William Zinsser
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun