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 It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited 
six thousand years for read more 
 It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited 
six thousand years for an observer. 
 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. 
 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, 
 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. 
 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. 
 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. 
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. 
 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,