Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Reading
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When I want to read a novel, I write one.
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Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
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We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
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Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Benjamin Disraeli
- Born: December 21, 1804
- Died: April 19, 1881
- Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons