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What is reading, but silent conversation.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it read more
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
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We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought
forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which
no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it read more
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
