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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Friends, Thoughts, Find

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

Good, Words, Speak

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Friend, Book

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, After, Once

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain

Person, Won, Advantage

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

History, Thought, Find

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

Best, Friend, Book

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln

Business, Made, Try

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin

Thinking, Whole, Older

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

Book, Praise, Classic

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

Good, Cannot, Books

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life, Education, Learning

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

Good, Books, Uneducated

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill

Against, Risk, Defends

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

Against, Risk, Defends

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson

Religion, Words, Lives

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, Words, Speak

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey Hepburn

Best, Honest, Tell

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson

Free, Able, Safe

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson

Single, Nor, Month

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde

Between, Difference, Literature

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde

Travel, Train, Diary

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Book, Down

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury

Education, Money, End

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde

Help, Determines

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

Reason, Against, Reading

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
Erma Bombeck

Life, Women, Sex

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger

Education, Experience, Between

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, May, Through

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

Travel, Book, Page

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