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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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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."
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"I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel."
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"Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages."
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"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"
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"The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison."
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"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."
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Explore more quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
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"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
Friendship
"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."
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"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
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"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
Love
"One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one."
Love
"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."
Friendship
"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."
Courage
"In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors."
Gratitude
"The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve."
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