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Quotes About Books I
Sunday, July 27th, 2008People die, but books never die. Beware of the man of one book. ~ Thomas Aquinas There is no friend as loyal as a book. ~ Ernest Hemingway Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who [...]
Quotes About Reading III
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill “by the numbers,” recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word. ~ Jacquelyn Gross It is [...]
Quotes About Reading II
Friday, July 25th, 2008To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ~ Gaston Bachelard Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ~ Augustine Birrell Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by [...]
Quotes About Reading I
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Read in order to live. ~ Gustave Flaubert Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ~ Mortimer J. Adler Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~ Lord Acton Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ~ W. Fusselman Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. [...]
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