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Quote by Joseph Addison
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – Joseph Addison

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Life
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Words
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. – Joseph Addison

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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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Reading

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. – Nicholson Baker

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Reading

Everything in this book may be wrong. The Saviors Manual – Richard Bach

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Reading

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