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A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wise

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. – Jeremy Collier

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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. – Jeremy Collier

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka

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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. – Thomas Carlyle

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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. – Holbrook Jackson

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