"If you cannot read all your books,..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.
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“In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.”
“You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.”
“It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.”
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“I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.”
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”
“Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”