Today Quotes
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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
Analysis kills spontaneity.Henri-Frederic Amiel
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.Swami Brahnmananda
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.G. K. Chesterton
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.Clarence Darrow