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“Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name”
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“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”
Anthony Trollope quotes
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“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 quotes
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“To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.”
Charles de Montesquieu quotes (French Politician and Philosopher, 1689-1755)
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“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”
Charles de Montesquieu quotes (French Politician and Philosopher, 1689-1755)
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“Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”
Charles Scribner, Jr. quotes
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“The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one”
Oliver Goldsmith quotes (Irish born British Essayist, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1730-1774)
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“Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure”
Jane Brody quotes
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“Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)
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“My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity”
Malcolm X quotes (American black militant leader who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s, 1925-1965)
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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”
Pablo Neruda quotes (Chilean poet, diplomat and politician, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, 1904-1973)
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