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Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so… — William Godwin
Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a… — L Estrange
Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day. — Chamfort
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more… — Henry David Thoreau
The fate of all extremes is such: men may be read, as well as books, too much. — Alexander Pope
You may chant your prayers five times each day; you may read the Bible and the Koran. Says Nanak, the grave is calling you, and… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. — Thomas Carlyle
I read one time that when the Polynesians were still innocent it wasnt uncommon to see them alongside a road engaging in sex. To them… — Martin Dansky
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as… — Ambrose Bierce
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read — Mark Twain
God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ… — Mark McGee
It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that… — Henry Ward Beecher
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you… — Anais Nin
I can't read lips unless they're touching mine. — Unknown Author
It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous… — Wolcott Gibbs
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. — Paul Sweeney
The book you don't read can't help — Jim Rohn
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all — Henry David Thoreau
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would… — Anne Frank

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