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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.


William Osler

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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
GABRIELLE DUBOIS To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I don't read books to finish them, I read to consume them.
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NEIL GAIMAN I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
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ERIC HOFFER Absolutely Disgusted! Your Father's Facing An Inquiry At Work And It's Entirely Your Fault! If You P...
J.K. ROWLING Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il...
WILLIAM DONELSON They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who ...
RANDY PAUSCH If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We hope that parents take those books home and read them to their kids.
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- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
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I love the reviews ...
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JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. The economy is in much better position to absorb them [evacuees] than it was a few years ago.
FIONA SIGALLA Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
OWEN MEREDITH Thank you for the friendship! Yes, GoodReads is fabulous fun, and the best reviews are so illuminati...
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HENRY JAMES It's easier than fullback because you don't have to read anything,
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
HENRY DAVID THOREAU My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
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SANDRA K. COOK Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dare to learn.
Dare to relearn.
Dare to outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating ...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER A word to the unwise.
Torch every book.
Char every page.
Burn every word to ash.
ELLEN HOPKINS Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave m...
JUDY BLUME Our children for the last 10 years, it's been said in every government survey, it's easier for them ...
JACK COLE It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to cont...
SENECA It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to con...
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QIN MA [I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
SIMON VAN BOOY It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.
JEAN WEBSTER It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct the...
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such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
THEODORE HESBURGH It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
THEODORE M. HESBURGH Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is easier to accumulate stuff than it is to eliminate them.
LORRIN L. LEE Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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CARL SAGAN It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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PHILIP PULLMAN It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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BRADLEY B. DALINA Desire for books, desire to read.
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DEYTH BANGER I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but t...
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BEVERLY CLEARY اعذرني !!
لن ألوث طهري ونقائي لمجرد إرضائك ،
ولن أد...
نجلاء حسن أتعلم لو كنت بقربي الآن ؟
لكنت ضممتك إلي بكل ما أوتيت...
نجلاء حسن ولو إستطعت أن أعود بعجلة الزمان إلى الوراء ،
لما إخت�...
نجلاء حسن Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

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WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE