Quote by E.M. Forster
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. – E.M. Forster

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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forster

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. – E.M. Forster

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There is no thief worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

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If you have never said “Excuse me” to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time. – Sherri Chasin Calvo

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Books are embalmed minds. – Bovee

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. – William Glasser

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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. – Pablo Neruda

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