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~ A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~

William Styron

~ My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~

Thomas Helm

~ Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. ~

Elizabeth Hardwick

~ Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man. ~

Francis Bacon

~ The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~

Elizabeth Hardwick

~ Reading is good but the garden is the best teacher. ~

Christine Allison

~ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~

Mary Worley Montagu

~ If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National ~

George Will

~ Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us ~

Dorothy Day

~ Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. ~

Francis Bacon

~ How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~

Mark Twain

~ A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ~

William Styron

~ My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity ~

Malcolm X

~ Education Ö has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~

G. M. Trevelyan

~ Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~

G.M. Trevelyan

~ My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things. ~

Bill Gates

~ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~

Mary Worley Montagu

~ You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. ~

Jim Rohn

~ There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments ~

Joseph Anderson

~ There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter. ~

Mortimer Adler

~ Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. ~

Charles Scribner, Jr.

~ Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. ~

Jean Rhys

~ You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~

Ray Bradbury

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