There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Literature is language charged with meaning
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The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the s...
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And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-b...
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wan...
