Quotes about reading
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Francis Bacon1561–1626Meditationes sacræ (1597), Of Studies- Francis Bacon1561–1626Resuscitatio (1657), Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881The Hero as Man of LettersBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Crome Yellow (1921), Ch. 28
Sigmund Freud1856–1939Letter to Ernest Jones (1933), as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 779
Ezra Pound1885–1972ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 2 (p. 29 in the 1961 paperback)
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Emma Goldman1869–1940Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Preface
Robert Burns1759–1796Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 1 (1787)
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Books- Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sir Walter Scott (1838)
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
John Adams1735–1826Letter to John Quincy Adams (14 May 1781)