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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), 
 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. 
 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. 
 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. 
 Night after night,
 He sat and bleared his eyes with books.  
 Night after night,
 He sat and bleared his eyes with books. 
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, read more
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
 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. 
 In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, 
the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
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 In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, 
the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,