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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
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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."
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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."
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"I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel."
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"Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages."
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"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
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"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"
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"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
Friendship
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
Business
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
Reading
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
Ignorance
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
Heaven
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
Experience
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
Home
"The less routine the more life."
Life
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
Success
"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."
Life
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