Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes About Reading
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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
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We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
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There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.
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Laws die, books never.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Born: May 25, 1803
- Died: January 18, 1873
- Occupation: Novelist