"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."

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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

John Green, American Author

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Old, Patience

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

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"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"We pardon to the extent that we love."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."

"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."