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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
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Mark Twain

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Logan Pearsall Smith

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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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William Cobbett

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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Jean Rostand

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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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Holbrook Jackson

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Read good, big important things.
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Peggy Noonan

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Read in order to live.
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Gustave Flaubert

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Read much, but not many books.
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Benjamin Franklin

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Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
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Professor Blackie

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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Henry David Thoreau

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
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Harriet Martineau

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
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Mortimer J. Adler

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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Arthur Schopenhauer

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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Augustine Birrell

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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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Benjamin Franklin

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.
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Source Unknown

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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
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Dawn Adams

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Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Francis Bacon

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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W. H. Auden

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
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Moses Hadas

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Amos Bronson Alcott

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The age of the book is almost gone.
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George Steiner

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