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Results of search for Quote or Author: reading - Page 8 of 8
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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

Results from Poor Man's College:

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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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.
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Johnson
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
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Rufus Choate
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
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Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
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