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Reading
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此，让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.
我迫不及待地跳进书里。人物的生活比我自己孤独的心跳有趣得多。
This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
这是她一生中唯一一次把书本作为走出牢房的门。他们成了她的半个世界。
That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
那种完美的宁静的生活，只有在静修中才能找到，一个忠实的朋友和一个好的图书馆。
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
如果你不能在人生的早期就找到自己，你就会在所有错误的地方寻找你自己。
Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone; it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you.
你的口不是给你一人吃的。它是给你的节目事件和你周围的环境。
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
我愿意花点时间和精力给那些黑客评论者，以及那些阅读时动嘴的人。
Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.
领导者是读者，门徒想要被教导，每个人都有天赋，需要被训练成卓越的人。
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
阅读使我们成为移民。它把我们带离了家，但更重要的是，它为我们找到了无处不在的家。
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
每一位读者的存在都是为了确保某本书适度地不朽。从这个意义上说，阅读是一种重生的仪式。
There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.
书中有许多珍宝，是世界上所有的钱都买不到的，但是最贫穷的劳动者却可以免费得到。
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.
当写作好的时候，一本书就变成了一面镜子。读者会看到一种不可思议的熟悉感，并做出相应的反应。
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
读书使人充实。善于交谈的人;写一个严谨的人。
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我真的有很多梦想，我想其中很大一部分是因为我有机会读了很多书。
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
文学为现实添彩，而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面，它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
有人看到成年男子在阅读了贴在外面的菜单后逃跑。
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
一个读者在他死之前经历了一千次生命。从不读书的人只活一次。
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
今天是读者，明天是领导者。