"There is no other enjoyment like reading
With a book he was regardless of time.
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"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
"[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
"Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to ...
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
"I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It is really very well for a novel." Such is the commo...
"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of hum...
"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.
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"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I...
"How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I sha...
"Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least b...