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“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo
“Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”
George Washington Carver
“The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.”
Norman Cousins
“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
Isaac Asimov
“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.”
Groucho Marx
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”
George Bernard Shaw
