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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.


John Witherspoon

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TEMITOPE IBRAHIM You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it.
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EMMA BRYNSTEIN This has to be a fairy tale because I never read a book like his.
DOUG BIEGA To read my book, the virgin shy - May blush, while Brutus standeth by: But when he's gone, read thro...
MARCUS AURELIUS The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a yea...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- r...
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JEFF DUNN I have no doubt Ms. Witherspoon was besieged by the paparazzi that day. But through witnesses and vi...
JEFF DUNN I have no doubt Ms. Witherspoon was besieged by the paparazzi that day, ... But through witnesses an...
JEFF DUNN Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p...
PAUL THEROUX I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
SYDNEY SMITH I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so
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C.S. LEWIS Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.
ORRIN WOODWARD A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
DAVID MITCHELL It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
T.S. ELIOT Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I find your question bizarre, ... It would be along the line of saying that I shouldn't see a movie ...
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SAM CRAWFORD I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of In...
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THEO JAMES If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.
AMAN JASSAL Never read any book that is not a year old.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read....
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BETH GUTCHEON I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav...
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ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
MARCHIONESS TOWNSEND You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
DR. SEUSS We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not underst...
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JOANNE DEVOE I have read your book and much like it.
MOSES HADAS I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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ITALO CALVINO It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY One half who graduate from college never read another book.
HERBERT TRUE One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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T.E. LAWRENCE The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.
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EKNATH EASWARAN Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so ...
BILLE AUGUST You don't have to have read Warren's book or even have done our other programs.
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OPHELIA LOVIBOND If you are brave, you will open the book and read it.
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CHARLES R. JACKSON I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for plea...
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CATHERINE LOWELL knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempste...
CHRISTOPHER CRAWFORD It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.
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E. M. FORSTER In other words I not only have to read that book, I have to read everything that author wrote.If you...
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MO WILLEMS It's no fun to read a book, and have no one to discuss it with.
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JAY FARON Never begun, never won.
IRFAN SAEED Reese Witherspoon does a sensational job
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PETER O'TOOLE One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years....
CARL SAGAN If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not hard...
JUPITER HAMMON John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.
VINNIE JONES I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
MIREILLE GUILIANO If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
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JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON