Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Reading
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
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Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
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