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"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."
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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
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"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh."
People

"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
Religion

"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
Mind

"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
Man

"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
Business

"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
Truth

"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
Time

"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
Health
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