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Quotes about books - reading
Never read any book that is not a year old. (Adams Dawn)
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. (Adams Dawn)
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. (Adams Dawn)
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. (Adams Dawn)
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. (Adams Dawn)
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. (Adams Dawn)
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. (Adams Dawn)
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. (Adams Dawn)
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. (Adams Dawn)
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. (Adams Dawn)
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. (Adams Dawn)
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. (Adams Dawn)
Read in order to live. (Adams Dawn)
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. (Adams Dawn)
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. (Adams Dawn)
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. (Adams Dawn)
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. (Adams Dawn)
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. (Adams Dawn)
Read much, but not many books. (Adams Dawn)
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. (Adams Dawn)
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Adams Dawn)
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. (Adams Dawn)
A book that is shut is but a block. (Adams Dawn)
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. (Adams Dawn)
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. (Adams Dawn)
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