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There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don’t understand them; sold by people who don’t understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don’t understand them; and now even writen by people who don’t understand them.
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There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man’s character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of
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There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.
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There is no such things as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
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There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.
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They that have read about everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections,–we must chew them over again.
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This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
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Thou art the cause, O reader, of my dwelling on lighter topics, when I would rather handle serious ones. [Lat., Seria cum possim, quod delectantia malim Scribere, tu causa es lector.]
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar.
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Uncertain whose the narrowest span,–the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.
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Verily, when thp day of judgement comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
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We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea.
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We could revolutionize education if we asked every person connected with the education of children, Read any good books lately?
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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We intended for the ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’
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