"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."

Reading, Men, Victory, First

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"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."

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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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"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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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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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."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

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"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."

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"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"

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"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

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"Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place."

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