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Book Reading Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
- Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more…
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
More Book Reading Quotes
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become… — Jean de la Bruyere
- Wear the old coat and buy the new book. — Austin Phelps
- I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. — Coolio
- Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? — Karl Kraus