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To sit alone
in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold
intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is
pleasure beyond compare.
-- Yoshida Kenko
I am a part of
everything that I have read.
-- John Kieran
Except a
living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a
message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never
saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet
these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse
us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to
us as brothers.
-- Charles Kingsley
1819-1875, British Author,
Clergyman
We ought to
reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty
things. If they are good and true, whether they are about
religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they
are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the
teacher of all truth.
-- Charles Kingsley
1819-1875, British Author,
Clergyman
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A bad book is
the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's
policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but
finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to
poison their books.
-- E.N. Kirk
You can either
read something many times in order to be assured that you
got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use
techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten
what you need.
-- Peter Kump
I love to lose
myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am
reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
-- Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist,
Critic
He has left
off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his
originality.
-- Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist,
Critic
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