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Books are
those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of
sages and heroes.
-- Edward Gibbon
1737-1794, British Historian
My early and
invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the
riches of India.
-- Edward Gibbon
1737-1794, British Historian
I know every
book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose
between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
-- George Robert Gissing
1857-1903, British Novelist,
Critic, Essayist
As writers
become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become
more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of
attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish
Author, Poet, Playwright
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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.
-- Sir James Goldsmith
I read part of
it all the way through.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
1882-1974, American Film
Producer, Founder, MGM
Learning to
read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of
narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces
recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies
of close order drill ''by the numbers,'' recruits to reading
learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.
-- Jacquelyn Gross
The unread
story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp.
The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a
story.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
1929-, American Author
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