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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Hypocrite reader--my fellow--my brother!
When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
... no book ... ever competed with the Bible. The story of Ruth was better than Ramona, and the poetry of Job was better than Long ...
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him ...
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have ...
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place ...
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency--the belief that the here and now ...
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
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