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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays