"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."

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"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."

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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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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."

Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese Writer

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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

Joseph Epstein, American Writer

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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."

John Witherspoon, American Politician

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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

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"Hard writing makes easy reading."

Wallace Stegner, American Novelist

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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."

Time

"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."

Education

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

Power

"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."

Time

"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"

Heart

"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."

Appearance

"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."

Love

"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."

Virtue

"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."

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"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."

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