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~ No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ~

Confucius

~ How deep our sleep last night in the mountains here, beneath the trees and stars, hushed by solemn-sounding waterfalls and many small soothing voices in sweet accord whispering peace! And our first pure mountain day, warm, calm, cloudless, -- how immeasurable it seems, how serenely wild! I can scarcely remember its beginning. Along the river, over the hills, in the ground, in the sky, spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm, new life, new beauty, unfolding, unrolling in glorious exuberant extravagance, -- new birds in their nests, new winged creatures in the air, and new leaves, new flowers, spreading, shining, rejoicing everywhere. ~

John Muir

~ Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. ~

Rufus Choate

~ The jazz band can be used for artificial excitement and aphrodisiac purposes, but not for spreading eternal truths. ~

Bliss, SirArthur

~ Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~

Anonymous

~ Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. ~

Philip Dormer Stanhope

~ When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. ~

John Locke

~ A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints ~

Wilfred Peterson

~ It comes of being by yourself when you are growing up, because you`re reading and you`re forming an opinion, and there`s no-one to argue with you, so you become dogmatic. There`s no-one to temper your opinion, so you think you`re right. ~

Peaches Geldof

~ The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I`d think, "How can you do that? ~

Cate Blanchett

~ Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known. ~

Vladimir Nabokov

~ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. ~

Henny Youngman

~ If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. ~

Stephen King

~ After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment. ~

Edgar Allan Poe

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