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A home without books is a body without soul.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading;
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading;
I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
- Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),
Night after night,
He sat and bleared his eyes with books.
Night after night,
He sat and bleared his eyes with books.
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited
six thousand years for read more
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited
six thousand years for an observer.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll read more
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well read more
The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.