"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

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Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

Joseph Epstein, American Writer

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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"

David Herbert Donald, American Historian

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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."

John Witherspoon, American Politician

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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

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"Hard writing makes easy reading."

Wallace Stegner, American Novelist

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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

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"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."

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"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."

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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."

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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"

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"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

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"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

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