Robert Frost on reading

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain1835–1910

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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