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«Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice»
Author: L. Estrange
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
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«The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Travel,
World
| Keywords:
book, page, Read only, travel
«Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?»
«He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.»
«All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.»
«A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.»
«The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
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«It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.»
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