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«Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | About: Reading | Keywords: savor, savoring, savors
«Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.»
Author: Guy Davenport | About: Reading | Keywords: Goethe, paralyzing, suspicion
«Read in order to live.»
«Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.»
Author: Horace Mann | About: Reading, Time | Keywords: edge, edge in, fifteen, resolve, sentence
«Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure»
Author: Jane Brody | About: Reading | Keywords: luxury
«Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice»
«Read much, but not many books.»
«Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.»
«Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.»
«She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel»

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