Charles Caleb Colton on reading

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship⁠—never.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

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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