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- To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a…
- Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make…
- It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to…
- It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts…
- Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
- Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills,…
- Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't…
- Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
- Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make…
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