"The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading."
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"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words."
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"A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave."
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"And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive."
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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
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"If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all."
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"We read to know that we are not alone."
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"The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things."
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"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
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"The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service"
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"Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters..."
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"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."
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"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them."
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"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."
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"To read too many books is harmful."
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"In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations."
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"Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading."
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"Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness."
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"Libraries are the future of reading."
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"Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious."
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