"From a child I was fond of..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
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“Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.”
“Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.”
“Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”
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“I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.”
“I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page”
“When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.”
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“Of writing many books there is no end.”
“People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”
“Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”