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Results of search for Quote or Author: reading - Page 4 of 8
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.
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Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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Reading is no substitute for action.
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Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 07-26-08
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
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Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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Sir Arthur Helps
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