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John Sharp Williams

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government."

John Sharp Williams, American Politician
Reading, Government, History
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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author
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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
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist
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"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

David Mitchell, British Novelist
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"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher
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"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer
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"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer
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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."

Virginia Woolf, British Author
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"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."

S. A. Tawks, British Author
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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

Stephen King, American Author
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