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Reading
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
我把书塞进口袋。我向你保证，停止阅读就像从一段古老而牢固的友谊的庇护下挣脱出来。
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
懒惰是心灵的敌人;所以弟兄们，务要在所定的时候，为虔诚的读经，劳力人的工夫。
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
如果我们用一本书对读者的影响来衡量它的重要性，那么伟大的儿童书籍就会突然出现在排行榜的前列。
I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'
我厌倦了阅读关于重生的书籍，因为我们都在不断地成长，如果你说“我是一个新人”，那么你的人生就会被缩短。
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
第一次读遗嘱时，如果一个人死得很有价值，通常会对死者亲属的爱提供一个真正的考验。
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
没能读到好书，既削弱了我们的视野，也强化了我们最致命的倾向——即相信此时此地就是一切。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
感受最美丽的生活意味着阅读一些美丽的东西，随时准备在语言的流动中领悟诗歌的突然闪现。
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
通过阅读任何一个人的空中楼阁的特征，你可以对他受挫的潜在欲望作出精明的猜测。
That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others as they see themselves.
这就是阅读伟大小说的乐趣和挑战;你可以像别人看待你一样看待自己，你也可以像别人看待自己一样看待别人。
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
我要把书放在桌子上，每天早晨一醒来就读一点，因为我知道这对我有好处，有助于我度过一天。
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
读书要像交友一样谨慎;因为你的习惯和性格会受到前者和后者的影响。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
许多书不需要读者思考，原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。