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With a book, he was regardless of time.

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With a book he was regardless of time...

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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

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Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured hers...more

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not s...more

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There is no other enjoyment like reading

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The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the...more

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The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I bel...more

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Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that...more

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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

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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...more

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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...more

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But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?""Yes, I am fond of history.""I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, bu...more