Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Reading Books
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.
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Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
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Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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