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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. – Christopher Morley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. – Clive Staples Lewis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. – Rene Descartes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Learn as much by writing as by reading. – Lord Acton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it. – Danish proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. – Chinese Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. – Ray Douglas Bradbury	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens. – Joseph Brodsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book. – Muriel Clark	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting. – G. Norman Collie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one. – David A. Cronin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. – Guy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. – Moses Hadas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. – Elizabeth Hardwick	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more. – Sir John Harington	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. – Claude Adrien Helvetius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. – Richard Hughes	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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