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Read Quotes by William Hazlitt
- It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
- A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
- If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three…
- If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we…
- Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well,…
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