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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come… — Agnes Smedley
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. — Lord Byron
A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration… — Horace
Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we… — John Thomas Sladek
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles… — John Thomas Sladek
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except… — John Thomas Sladek
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read. — John Thomas Sladek
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research. — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau
I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir… — David Eddings
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. — D. H. Lawrence
I think really good books can be read by anybody. — Norton Juster
One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred… — Norton Juster
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a tie between men to have read the same book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can find my biography in every fable that I read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We often read with as much talent as we write. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight… — John W. Gardner
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations,… — Matt Groening
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? — George Bernard Shaw

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