The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless
implied, will be able to form some conception.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Autobiography (bk. XVIII, Truth and Beauty)
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What they're accustomed to is no great matter,
But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.
[Ger., Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewohnt,
Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Faust--Vorspiel auf dem Theater (l. 13), (Bayard Taylor's translation)
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In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and
receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: The Citizen of the World (letter LXXV)
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused
before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: The Citizen of the World (letter LXXXIII)
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of
science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will
grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or
religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the
ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a
lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: The Adventurer (no. 137)
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he
reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is
transcribed.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: The Idler (no. 74)
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It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited
six thousand years for an observer.
Johannes Kepler
Quotes , Source: in "Martyrs of Science", p. 197
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading;
I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
- Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Quotes , Source: Last Essays of Elia--Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
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