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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.


Charles Dickens

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and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No...
CHARLES DICKENS Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one flee...
DAVID QUAMMEN One who does not like to read is equal to one who cannot read.
VIKRANT PARSAI No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
ERIC HOFFER A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
MARK TWAIN Customer: Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?
JEN CAMPBELL A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
MARK TWAIN No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cann...
G.K. CHESTERTON No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic
ANN LANDERS One half who graduate from college never read another book.
HERBERT TRUE One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. TREVELYAN The greatest book about giving that I've ever read is 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, about ...
TED TURNER No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
LEE TREVINO Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who ...
RANDY PAUSCH The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO No one wants to read a math book.
ERIN DUFFY "One who hones their weaknesses, and overcomes them, can move on even stronger than ever before.
SS038NICK Jane Heard.
ONE No one who writes a good book is really dead.
WALTER MOERS I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.
BRENE BROWN The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE My shitty book, no one is going to read, about a total asshole and a completely fucked up world.
SCOTT TALBOT EVANS The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
CARLO GOLDONI Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
NOAH PORTER No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
THOMAS HARDY If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one.
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
PATTI SMITH I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. S...
MARY MACLANE I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
NEIL YOUNG Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
CAROL SHIELDS Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fight like snake and mongoose, no one knows who is who and none ca...
ANUJ SOMANY No one wants to read an apologetic book.
PATRICK NESS There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely...
LYNN COADY If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own s...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN It's no fun to read a book, and have no one to discuss it with.
BONNIE THOMPSON A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT No one can please a man who is not at peace with himself.
BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI One cannot be brave who has no fear.
MARISSA MEYER Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
SELENA KITT When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex...
NICOLE WILLIAMS No one who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
SIGMUND FREUD Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.
DWAYNE HICKMAN Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. I...
JOHN BOYNE A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
THOMAS BEECHAM A really great unfortunate person is one who cannot find water even in the sea.
VIKRANT PARSAI A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.
J.R. WARD Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look...
JENNIFER CARPENTER You are a book being read every moment,
By someone or the other,
Though only in parts! <...
LUKHMAN PAMBRA Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a play...
SHELBY METCALF The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
MARK TWAIN Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.
PROVERB I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after w...
JANE SMILEY Read my book on Amazon Kindle Store- The Sergeant Who Raped A Minor.
JOYESH MAZUMDAR There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can r...
HENRY R. LUCE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can...
HENRY R. LUCE The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhyt...
CHARLES DICKENS I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and...
RODMAN PHILBRICK If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
OSCAR WILDE I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fai...
UMBERTO ECO One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man wh...
ASHISH KUMAR There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man w...
G.K. CHESTERTON There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man wh...
G.K. CHESTERTON In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eig...
BURT WARD My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
RAFAEL NADAL There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most ...
SUN TZU How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
DAVID FINCHER To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!
WILLA CATHER In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA No two persons ever read the same book.
EDMUND WILSON A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on, Who never said a foolish thing...
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no o...
MAXIM GORKY A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.
JAMES BEARD A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
JAMES BEARD Was it Charles Dickens who said it was the best of times and the worst of times? That's how I feel. ...
JEFF GORDON There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the ...
FRANK SERAFINI When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one's ever been able to satisfy a wedding...
MUNSHI PREMCHAND Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Ar...
MAYA ANGELOU Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jum...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are ...
WILL ROGERS I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocquevil...
KURT VONNEGUT Never trust a man who reads only one book.
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE Wuthering Heights, considered the most romantic book ever written by those who had never read it car...
CATHERINE LOWELL Where did she come from, and where can I find one?"

"Picked this one up at a gas station ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN If you believe in GOD, then why pick one off the shelf. It's almost like looking at a grain of sand ...
VARUN AHUJA Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which...
C.S. LEWIS A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
HENRY MILLER

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CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS