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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren read more
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books read more
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of
science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will
grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or
religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the
ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a
lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in read more
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.
The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.
A home without books is a body without soul.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but read more
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless
implied, will be able to form some conception.
