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Quotes about books - reading
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. (Adams Dawn)
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. (Adams Dawn)
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 are yet unborn. (Adams Dawn)
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. (Adams Dawn)
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. (Adams Dawn)
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. (Adams Dawn)
Beware of the person of one book. (Adams Dawn)
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. (Adams Dawn)
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. (Adams Dawn)
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. (Adams Dawn)
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. (Adams Dawn)
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. (Adams Dawn)
Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested. (Adams Dawn)
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. (Adams Dawn)
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. (Adams Dawn)
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. (Adams Dawn)
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. (Adams Dawn)
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. (Adams Dawn)
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. (Adams Dawn)
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. (Adams Dawn)
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother! (Adams Dawn)
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. (Adams Dawn)
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Adams Dawn)
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? (Adams Dawn)
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. (Adams Dawn)
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