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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the
one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the
other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive,
cherished, and confirmed.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: in the "Tatler", no. 147
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before
Cliff Fadiman
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting
Aldous Huxley
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Lily Tomlin
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Essays--Of Studies
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And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it
plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Habakkuk (ch. II, v. 2)
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That he that readeth may run over it.
[Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.]
Bible
Quotes , Source: (rendering in the Vulgate), Habakkuk (ch. II, v. 2)
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Essays--Goethe's Helena
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever
it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Essays--Goethe's Helena
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The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Retirement (l. 715)
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But truths on which depends our main concern,
That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,
Shine by the side of every path we tread
With such a lustre he that runs may read.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Tirocinium (l. 77)
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading,
imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Isaac D'Israeli
Quotes , Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XXII)
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech,
the sea which receives tributaries from every region under
heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles
river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in
originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Essays--Books
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for
literature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he read.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotations and Originality
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My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not
exchange for the treasures of India.
Edward Gibbon
Quotes , Source: Memoirs
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