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    That he that readeth may run over it.
    [Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.]

    by Bible Found in Reading Quotes,
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And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it
plain upon tables, that he may read more

And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it
plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.

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If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he read.
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If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he read.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Reading Quotes,
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Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

by Book Of Common Prayer Found in: Reading Quotes,
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What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is
transcribed.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is
transcribed.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Reading Quotes,
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Night after night,
He sat and bleared his eyes with books.

Night after night,
He sat and bleared his eyes with books.

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading;
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading;
I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
- Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

by Mark Twain Found in: Reading Quotes,
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books read more

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of
science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will
grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or
religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the
ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a
lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Reading Quotes,
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