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Quote by Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edm

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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Age
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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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Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. – Judah Ibn Tibbon

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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Books

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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