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 I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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A few years earlier, Thomas Jefferson expressed a similar thought, writing "I cannot live without books".
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By reading, you will realize that there is much to know about life, about the world we live, about everything. It can even be a window to a everybody's private life. Keep reading!" I never realized such thin gs until I started reading."
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By reading, you will realize that there is more to know about life, about the world we live, about everything. It can even be a window to everybody's private life. Keep reading!" I never realized such things until I started reading."
teaching is a humble and a giving art~
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I remember Confucius saying "I dream a house full of books
and a garden frought with flowers!"
Same dream I have!
"Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed."
Samuel Johnson
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I am an owner of such a house. I love reading. So what? I have recently noticed so many unlearned people who are more successful in life than me, which throws my concept about life into great confusion. Am I on the wrong path?
Still, I can't relinquish my conviction: reading humanizes the man!
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aerial wrote:I am an owner of such a house. I love reading. So what? I have recently noticed so many unlearned people who are more successful in life than me, which throws my concept about life into great confusion. Am I on the wrong path?
Still, I can't relinquish my conviction: reading humanizes the man! Today, B+ students are more materially successful because they are not compelled by A+ intellect to pore over the books and contemplate in the quiet of their person. The A+ mind could also translate their intellectual output into material success. But it's indirect, and most translations never occur. The B+ salesman and businessman and Wall Street broker commands the material world. Even then, it's never that clear-cut. Sometime the billionaire businessman may be hedging his bet in the materially world while secretly indulging in his A+ intellectual pursuits.
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Mark Twain once said “Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it”. (Following the Equator, Mark Twain; 1897)
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No matter what I'm doing, I have a book nearby. I have my morning book and my before sleeping book. I have a good friend who is a wonderful man. He is sooooo much of what any woman would want in a mate. Unfortunately, he does not read. He hasn't read a book since he left college 40 years ago. It is amazing how stilted one's conversations are if the reservoir of the mind isn't constantly refilled with new thoughts,ideas and concepts. His conversations are so very narrow that it detracts from his attractiveness. So sad. It doesn't shock me that this forum would be full of readers. We are after all, word lovers. Is there anyone here who isn't a reader? If not, how do you live? What sustains your mind?
Feed Your Head-Grace Slick
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AJC, I suppose you may be more the intellectual consumer, less the intellectual producer? Me too. Though I read/think/listen/wonder much I have not crossed the threshold of putting some of it down on paper. One of these days...
As for those who haven't read much after high school or college, that's their calling in life, more like the drone worker ants/bees in an ant/bee hive. They are much needed for their role. They have more muscle in the arms and legs than in the mind, so no mental sparring for you. :(
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Books are food for the brain. Next to exercise, They're the things I need most beyond the basic necessities.
"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan
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