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I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know read more
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading read more
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he read more
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in read more
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.