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September 06, 2021, 12:00
shufitz
Wise Words About Reading
quote:
”A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.” — Samuel Johnson
I’m sure there are many other excellent quotations on the virtues of reading. Share, please?
September 07, 2021, 04:28
BobHale
I am usually wary of any quotations attributed to Groucho Marx but, as far as I have been able to find out, this one, give or take a word choice, seems genuine.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
September 07, 2021, 05:53
Geoff
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” Woody Allen
September 07, 2021, 17:36
bethree5
“La lecture nous donne des amis inconnus… " - Honoré de Balzac
Reading brings us unknown friends…
September 07, 2021, 17:41
bethree5
"We read to know that we are not alone."
C.S. Lewis
September 09, 2021, 19:34
Kalleh
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." Dr. Seuss

How true.
September 23, 2021, 16:39
tinman
“The man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot read” – Mark Twain
September 23, 2021, 16:57
Geoff
Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
September 24, 2021, 19:59
Kalleh
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
~ Ernest Hemingway