Random Quotes
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.Henry Peter Brougham
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.Rufus Choate
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Christopher Dawson
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.Francois Fenelon
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.James Goldsmith
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.Johnson
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.Dorothy Parker
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne