A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

Abraham Lincoln

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You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius

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It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

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Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Winston Churchill

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Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Warren Buffett

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Be a lifelong student, read as many books as possible.

Nelson Mandela

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