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Irving Babbitt

"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."

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"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

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

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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."

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Donna Grant

"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"

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Donna Grant

"The world of books is heavenly paradise."

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Donna Grant

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

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Donna Grant

"Reading sparks writing."

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Donna Grant

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

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Irving Babbitt
"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."

Emotional

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Irving Babbitt
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."

Man

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Irving Babbitt
"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."

Society

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Irving Babbitt
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."

Power

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Irving Babbitt
"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."

Being

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Irving Babbitt
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."

Happiness

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Irving Babbitt
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."

Man

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Irving Babbitt
"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."

Faith

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Irving Babbitt
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."

Faith

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Irving Babbitt
"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."

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