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- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele
- Literature is news that stays news.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
- To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
- Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
- People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
- Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
- Elaine Gill
- My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
- Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
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