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Read Homer Once, And You Can Read No More; For All Books Else Appear So Mean, So Poor, Verse Will Seem Prose
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Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.
-- Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire (1649-1720)
-- Essay on Poetry
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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There 's no such thing in Nature; and you 'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.
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Where do you find the time to not read so many books?
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...
Read books : There is no tax on it as of now!
Read all you want...I'll write more!
What do you do when you've written more books than you've read?
Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband Jame
The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
"Too much emphasis is placed on the development of reading skills in elementary school....