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Reads Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are…
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