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Reading
Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.
惠特尼和我有时看报很开心。你会对他们说我去过的地方感到惊讶的。
I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.
我经常为那些不读好书的人感到遗憾;他们正在失去一个过上额外生活的机会。
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
读书只是用知识的材料来充实心灵;思考使我们读到的东西成为我们自己的。
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
你以为你的痛苦和心碎是世界历史上前所未有的，但后来你读了。
The presence of the Lord destroys a life of struggle. You will struggle until you encounter his presence.
上帝的存在摧毁了挣扎的生活。你会挣扎直到你遇见他的存在。
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves, they became chapters in it themselves.
书籍书写了我们的人生故事，当它们堆积在我们的书架上时，它们自己也成为了其中的章节。
Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.
言语有最大的力量造成永久的痛苦。语言有治愈灵魂的最大力量。
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
作家写一本书是为了忘记一本书，而读者读一本书是为了记住它。
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
既然我们注定要在思想的牢笼中度过一生，我们就有责任把它布置好。
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
你读的书越多，你知道的东西就越多。你学得越多，你要去的地方就越多。
She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home.
她不禁想，一个人家里的鞋子比书还多，一定是出了什么问题。
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
养成读书的习惯，就是为自己建造一个避难所，使自己免受生活中几乎所有的不幸。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
读书不是为了反驳和驳倒，也不是为了相信和想当然……而是要权衡和考虑。
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
当我成为国王时，他们不仅有面包和住所，而且还有书本上的教导，因为在思想饥饿的地方，饱腹是没有什么价值的。
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
有权势的人没有时间读书;不读书的人，不配得权柄。
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
那些被世界称为不道德的书，是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。
Literature is news that stays news.
文学是保持新闻的新闻。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。