Great Reading Quotes - Page 3

• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Book, Reading

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• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Life, Book, Reading

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• Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

  Scott Turow

  Reading, Drug, Pills

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• It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

  Sydney Smith

  Wise, Strong, Powerful

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

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