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Race
The belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority, happens to be a myth. [With Franz Boas]
Rank
To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it. [Stanislas I]
Reading
A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. [Mark Twain]Education. . . has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. [G. M. Trevelyan]
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. [William Lyon Phelps]
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. [William Penn]
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable. [Jean Rostand]
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. [Francis Bacon]
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. [Henry David Thoreau]
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. [Mortimer J. Adler]
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. [Henry David Thoreau]
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep. [With Tryon Edwards]
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