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181 quotes (Page 6 of 8 pages)The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle
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The book you don't read won't help.
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Jim Rohn
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Anatole France
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
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Oscar Wilde
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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
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Warren Chappell
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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Frank Dane
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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Blaise Pascal
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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
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Mark Twain
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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
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Christopher Dawson
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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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American Proverb
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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William Dean Howells
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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Martin Luther
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
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George Holbrook Jackson
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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Katherine Mansfield
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
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Rene Descartes
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
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Lord Byron
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Abraham Lincoln
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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
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William Faulkner
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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Walt Whitman
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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Stan Barstow
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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Joseph Joubert
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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Charles Dickens
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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
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H. L. Mencken
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun