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Then I thought of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -- throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -- put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -- put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul.
One always tends to over-praise a long book, because one has got through it.
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
The mere brute pleasure of reading -- the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.