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Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for
the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote,
of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on
your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions and teach your
children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is
a casket of jewels for your household.
Tryon Edwards
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Burke
You must glean knowledge by reading but you must separate the
chaff from the wheat by thinking.
We should be as careful of the books we read as of the company
we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tryon Edwards
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to
improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
Sterne
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for
granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and
consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested; that is some books are
to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not
curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence
and attention.
Bacon
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