What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret FullerEvery man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous HuxleyA good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Terry PratchettTags: reading read bookshop bookstore discworld
Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
Virginia WoolfLet us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .
John AdamsTags: knowledge read think cherish
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: life books death read literature
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Christopher MorleyYou must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
Giovanni BoccaccioTags: power mind read clarity boccaccio
Reading to small children is a specialty.
Clifton FadimanTags: reading children read child
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