"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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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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

Reading, Joy, Novel, Emotion

"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

Reading, Focus, Presence, Learning

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Reading, Order

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Man, Sound, Wishes

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

Reading, Entertainment, Pleasure

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

"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."

"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

"Read in order to live."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

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"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."