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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." »Francis Bacon
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"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." »S. I. Hayakawa
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"My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way." »Al Capone
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"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"the first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one." »James Goldsmith
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"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer." »Real Live Preacher
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"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." »Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
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"the ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." »John F. Kennedy
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"the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"the fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." »Muhammad Ali
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once." »Cyril Connolly
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once." »Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
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"the man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." »Mark Twain
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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely." »Hesketh Pearson
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"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks." »John Donne
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"there is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." »G. K. Chesterton
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"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one." »Selwyn Champion
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"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one." »Selwyn Champion
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"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"the universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this." »Real Live Preacher
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"One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life." »Real Live Preacher
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"For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens." »Joseph Brodsky
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"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"the source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme." »Bible
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." »Benjamin Lee Whorf
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"Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. the whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant." »Glenda Jackson
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"Things don't fall apart. Things hold. lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept." »Lucille Clifton
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"the artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. the ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews." »William Faulkner
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"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me." »Walt Whitman
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