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Quotations on Books and Reading

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by Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

by Aristophanes
(~ 445 BC - 385 BC)

By words the mind is winged.

by William Lyon Phelps
(January 2, 1865 - July 21, 1943)

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

by William Somerset Maugham
(January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965)

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

by Joseph Addison
(May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

by Unknown

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

by Bible

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

by Unknown

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

by Walter Bagehot
(February 23, 1826 - March 24, 1877)

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

by Unknown

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.



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