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• There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H. L. Mencken
• When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. — Mark Twain
• As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments… — Oscar Wilde
• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf
• As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other… — William Thurston
• The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it… — J M Coetzee
• If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing. — Paul de Man
• As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,… — Oscar Wilde
• One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar
• Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one… — Johannes V. Jensen
• I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even… — Helen Simonson
• I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned… — Tablo

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