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title: "11 Knows Read Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-smith/oh-magic-hour-when-a-child-first-knows-she-can-read-printed-words/)

[Betty Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-smith/)

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> [Everybody knows how to read but not everybody knows how to understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/everybody-knows-how-to-read-but-not-everybody-knows-how-to-understand/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/once-she-knows-how-to-read-there-s-only-one-thing-you-can-teach-her/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-burton/anybody-who-knows-me-knows-i-would-never-read-a-comic-book/)

[Tim Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-burton/)

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> [A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/a-good-bookshop-is-just-a-genteel-black-hole-that-knows-how-to-read/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/every-man-who-knows-how-to-read-has-it-in-his-power-to-magnify/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/every-person-who-knows-how-to-read-has-it-in-their-power-to-magnify/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [“She’s too hot, even for you. And since she’s got a book, she probably knows how to read, so she’s smart enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-williams/she-s-too-hot-even-for-you-and-since-she-s-got-a-book-she-probably/)

[Nicole Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-williams/)

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> [“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/everyone-who-knows-how-to-read-has-it-in-their-power-to-magnify/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [There is a big difference between he who reads just because he knows how to read and he who does understand what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wagner-t-matioli/there-is-a-big-difference-between-he-who-reads-just-because-he-knows/)

[Wagner T Matioli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wagner-t-matioli/)

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> [“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/every-man-with-a-little-leisure-and-enough-money-for-railway-tickets/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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