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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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