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“As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.”

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Joseph Addison, born on May 1, 1672, and died on June 17, 1719, was an influential English essayist, dramatist, and poet. He is known for his elegant prose style and his co-authorship of the magazine 'The Spectator' with Richard Steele. more

“I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word.”

Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

“The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.”

People Want Book Born Written Information

Book:All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts

Source: All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts

“Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.”

Men Want Light Literature Natural Direct Exploration Artificial Natural Light Artificial Light

Author:David Daiches

“As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.”

Feels Years Book Past Majors Sitting Guilty Former Ducks Shelves Dickens English Major Bronte

Author:Garrison Keillor

“The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.”

Men Humans Mean Art Book Action Form Teach Taken Majors Aim Deeper Permanent Theme Ethical Norm Be A Man Great Book Human Actions Eliot Literary Art Permanent Things

Author:Russell Kirk

“Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes on is usually directly related to the number of bathrooms he has in his home and office. I am working on a survey that will show that, over a lifetime, readers are in bathrooms seven years and three months longer than nonreaders.”

Years Book Shows Home Hands Three Numbers Months Reader Office Lifetime Seven Related Bathroom Seven Years Surveys Three Months

Author:Calvin Miller

“Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.”

Stills Book Might Students Hundred Library British Museums Fewer Barbarians Liberal Education British Museum

Author:Alfred Richard Orage

“You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.”

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.”

Years Book Light Pages Leather Stains Great Book Bleach Clovers

Book:Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

“And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.”

Ifs Men Littles Hard Little Time Anecdotes

Book:The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

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