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.

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

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

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

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),

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in read more

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting

But truths on which depends our main concern,
That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,
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But truths on which depends our main concern,
That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,
Shine by the side of every path we tread
With such a lustre he that runs may read.

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,