Thursday?s HOME-Spun Wisdom

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With colder days ahead, book lovers plan to enjoy their favorite passion: reading. Whether it?s a classic by Mark Twain or a recent work of non-fiction, Americans will head to their libraries and bookshops this season. Read all about reading in the following observations:
Thursday?s HOME-Spun Wisdom

RISMEDIA, Nov. 21?With colder days ahead, book lovers plan to enjoy their favorite passion: reading. Whether it?s a classic by Mark Twain or a recent work of non-fiction, Americans will head to their libraries and bookshops this season. Read all about reading in the following observations:

“I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”

- Montesquieu

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

– Logan Pearsall Smith

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”

– Samuel Johnson

“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.”

– Laurence Sterne

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

- Bertrand Russell

“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”

– T.S. Eliot

“People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

– Logan Pearsall Smith

“I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. Books think for me.”

– Charles Lamb

“Read, read, read.”

- William Faulkner

“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.”

- E. M. Forster

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”

- Austin Phelps

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

- Mark Twain

?Learn as much by writing as by reading.?

- Lord Acton

?Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.?

- Francis Bacon

?Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.?

- John Locke

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