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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.»
Author: David Viscott | About: Reading, Writers | Keywords: diversions, fill up, spaces
«No two persons ever read the same book.»
Author: Edmund Wilson | About: Books, Reading | Keywords: persons
«Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.»
Author: John Witherspoon | About: Reading | Keywords: begun
«No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one»
«No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | About: Reading
«Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.»
Author: William H. Gass | About: Reading | Keywords: flier, gossips, seal, speeding
«On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.»
«Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.»
«My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity»
«One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Reading | Keywords: letters, The Knowledge

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