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351 quotesThe reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Books - Reading
Lord Byron
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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Money
Lord Byron
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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Belief
Julius Caesar
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Time and Time Management
Thomas Carlyle
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Writers and Writing
Thomas Carlyle
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You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.
Preparation
Andrew Carnegie
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I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
Cooking
Katherine Cebrian
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Books - Reading
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Books - Reading
William Ellery Channing
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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Opportunity
Roy D. Chapin Jr.
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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Books - Reading
Warren Chappell
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Books - Reading
Lord Chesterfield
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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Books - Reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
Truth
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Critics and Criticism
Charles Churchill
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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Learning
Winston Churchill
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Wordiness
Winston Churchill
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Marcus T. Cicero
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Critics and Criticism
E. M. Cioran
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Books - Reading
William Cobbett
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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Acting and Actors
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Critics and Criticism
Jackie Collins
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
Opportunity
Charles Caleb Colton
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun