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Letter "R" » Reading
«I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
distress, relieve, relieving
«It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little»
«It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.»
Author: Jim Bishop
(Writer)
| About:
Fathers,
Mothers,
Reading
| Keywords:
despises, enslaved, travail, travailed, travailing
«I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
discovering, dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, important person, lifetimes
«I have read your book and much like it.»
«In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.»
«I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.»
«I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget»
«I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.»
«In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Reading,
Writers
| Keywords:
double standard, in relation to, readers, relation to, The Double, unfaithful
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