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There is a set
of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that
virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery
in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine,
and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is
not true.
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
We are as
liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
Read in order
to live.
-- Gustave Flaubert
1821-1880, French Novelist
I suggest that
the only books that influence us are those for which we are
ready, and which have gone a little further down our
particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
-- Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist,
Essayist
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One
always tends to overpraise a long book, because one
has got through it.
-- Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British
Novelist, Essayist
The
only books that influence us are those for which we
are ready, and which have gone a little farther down
our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
-- Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British
Novelist, Essayist
The
books that everybody admires are those that nobody
reads.
-- Anatole France
1844-1924, French
Writer
Read
much, but not many books.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
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