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- When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
- My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
- The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the…
- How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
- Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
- Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
- Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
- There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But…
- I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has had to do…
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