Edmund Burke's Quote - To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edm

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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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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. – Edmund Burke

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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke

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God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. – W.E. Channing

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Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. – Hilaire Belloc

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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Random Quotes

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. – Billy Corgan

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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. – Fannie Hurst

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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. – Charles Babbage

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry. – Salman Rushdie

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