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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

"Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek."

"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."

"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."

"Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."

"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."

"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."
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