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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.
 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for 
literature.
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,  
 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for 
literature.
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 
 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. 
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
 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. 
 Night after night,
 He sat and bleared his eyes with books.  
 Night after night,
 He sat and bleared his eyes with books. 
 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. 
 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. 
 The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
 Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
  Whose wit well read more 
 The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
 Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
  Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
   Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.