If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.

A home without books is a body without soul.

A home without books is a body without soul.

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,

My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not
exchange for the treasures of India.

My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not
exchange for the treasures of India.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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

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

The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but read more

The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless
implied, will be able to form some conception.

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

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

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he
reads as a task will do him little good.