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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company
Read much, but not many books
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life
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
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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