To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.

A.A. Milne

Tags: illiteracy



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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

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Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Peter S. Jennison

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard

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The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin

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Beware the man of a single book.

Thomas Aquinas

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School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

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I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.

Nicole Peeler

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