Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
— Carlyle
Biography is praised as the most pleasant and profitable kind of reading.
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Reading makes a full man; conversation, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man.
— Lord Bacon
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon thos…
— Charles Caleb Colton
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
— Dr. Bacon
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
— Joseph Brodsky
In the late 1800s, a publishing sensation swept over America. A six-hundredpage book entitled, The Royal Path of Life, w…
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
— Plutarch
