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Quote by Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for gr

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. – Francis Bacon

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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. – Isaac Asimov

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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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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. – W. H. Auden

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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. – John Locke

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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. – John F. Kennedy

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Seeds of faith are always within us sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. – Susan Taylor

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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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