"If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good."

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"If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good."

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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."

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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

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"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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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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"Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever."

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"That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war."

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"Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free."

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"When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants."

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"The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is."

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"We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven."

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"We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business."

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