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- People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an…
- Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is…
- A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas…
- To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
- Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.
- How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
- One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
- I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
- There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
- I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less…
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