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- One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
- Sterne
- Analysis kills spontaneity.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
- Johnson
- The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
- James Goldsmith
- The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
- Christopher Dawson
- Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
- Rufus Choate
- It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
- Henry Peter Brougham
- Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
- Simms
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