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A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

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The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

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The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

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You can never be wise unless you love reading.

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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written...more

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People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much...more

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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.