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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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Donna Grant

"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."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger
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Donna Grant

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher
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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."

John Green, American Author
Reading, Joy, Novel, Emotion
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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author
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Donna Grant

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher
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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

Dean Koontz, American Author
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Donna Grant

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author
Reading, Old, Patience
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Donna Grant

"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."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer
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Donna Grant

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher
Reading, Books, Treasure, Enjoyment, Knowledge

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"I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it."
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