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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
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"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."
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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
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"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."
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"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."
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"Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading."
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"I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love."
Love
"How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
Philosophy
"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine."
Love
"Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had on their first Entrance in the Neighbourhood, taken due care to inform the surrounding Families, that as their happiness centered wholly in themselves, they wished for no other society."
Love
"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."
Love
"But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness."
Love
"Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given."
Philosophy
"Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint."
Behavior
"And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne."
Behavior
"With a book he was regardless of time."
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