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Reading
«I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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Reading
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distress, relieve, relieving
«It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.»
Author: Jim Bishop
(Writer)
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Fathers,
Mothers,
Reading
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despises, enslaved, travail, travailed, travailing
«I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
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Reading
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discovering, dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, important person, lifetimes
«In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.»
«I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.»
«I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.»
«In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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Reading,
Writers
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double standard, in relation to, readers, relation to, The Double, unfaithful