Jane Austen Quotes About Reading
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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
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A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.
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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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