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Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta. For all her… — Jack Handey
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually… — Greg Laurie
If we could read minds, we wouldn't need headsets. — Unknown Author
. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out… — Unknown Author
The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him. — Victor Hugo
The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. — Spike Milligan
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… — Aldous Huxley
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its… — Robert M. Hutchins
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory… — Charles Caleb Colton
His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. — Jonathan Larson
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life is a poem most people never read. — Laurence Overmire
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing. — Emma Watson
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman
The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice. — Irving Howe
Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure — Jane Brody
There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him. — Unknown Author
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S.… — Dave Barry
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but… — Mark Twain
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant — Saadi
But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene...… — Ken Kesey
A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them. — Mark Twain

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