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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.
 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.] 
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
 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. 
 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. 
 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. 
 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, 
 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, 
 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,