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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
 The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, 
imparts the vivacity and novelty of read more 
 The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, 
imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. 
 In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and 
receives more instruction from the Press than the read more 
 In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and 
receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. 
 What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is 
transcribed.  
 What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is 
transcribed. 
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
 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. 
 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), 
 We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever 
it may be, as he saw read more 
 We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever 
it may be, as he saw it. 
 That he that readeth may run over it.
 [Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.]  
 That he that readeth may run over it.
 [Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.]