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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they read more
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of read more
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He read more
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, read more
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
