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There are two motives for reading a…

3 Jul , 2015  

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

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Till a man can judge whether they b…

19 Dec , 2011  

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. Great short quote and quotation by: John Locke , English empiricist philosopher (1632 – 1704)

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Aleister Crowley

To read a newspaper is to refrain f…

13 Oct , 2011  

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Great short quote and quotation by: Aleister Crowley , English occultist (1875 – 1947)

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Ben Hecht

Trying to determine what is going o…

5 Aug , 2011  

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. Great short quote and quotation by: Ben Hecht , US author & dramatist (1893 – 1964)

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What we call education and culture …

15 Feb , 2011  

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

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Henny Youngman

When I read about the evils of drin…

15 Feb , 2011  

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Great short quote and quotation by: Henny Youngman , US (English-born) comedian (1906 – 1998)

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Karl Kraus

Where do I find the time for not re…

15 Feb , 2011  

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? Great short quote and quotation by: Karl Kraus , Austrian author and journalist (1874 – 1936)

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