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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
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John Milton

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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
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Jim Rohn

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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William Ellery Channing

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
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Stephane Mallarme

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
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Richard Bach

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Jessamyn West

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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
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Charles Lamb

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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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George Bernard Shaw

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
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Charles Baudelaire

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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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John Kieran

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Isaac Asimov

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I cannot live without books.
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Thomas Jefferson

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

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I have read your book and much like it.
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Moses Hadas

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I read part of it all the way through.
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Samuel Goldwyn

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Aneurin Bevan

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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
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Coolio

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

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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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Charles de Secondat

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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Raoul Vaneigem

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Voltaire

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Victor Hugo

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