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Reading Quotes by William Hazlitt
- So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have…
- A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually…
- The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
- Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
- 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…
- He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on the mind by…
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