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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."
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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."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."
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"Read a short story every day."
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"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
Reality
"There is an underlying unity in all things."
Philosophy
"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
People
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
Life
"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."
Time
"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
Power
"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
Opinion
"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."
History
"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
Man
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
Money
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