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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.
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.
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.
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,
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.]
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech,
the sea which receives tributaries from every region read more
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech,
the sea which receives tributaries from every region under
heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles
river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in
originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
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.
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.
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.
