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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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

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

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

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