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- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
- Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
- Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
- But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they…
- To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
- The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
- Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
- What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
- In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen…
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so…
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works…
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