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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, 1811)
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom (O Magazine, April 2003)
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
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