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«Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.»
«Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.»
«Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.»
«Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.»
«Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.»
«There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.»
«Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.»
«Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.»
«Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.»
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»

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