"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman

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"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."

Juan Cole, American Educator

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"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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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

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"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."

Heinz Guderian, German Soldier

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom, Truth

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."

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"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

Time

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

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"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."

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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

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"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."

"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."

"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."

"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."

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

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

"This world's a bubble."

"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."