Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Books – Reading
Quotations by Augustine Birrell
Quotes :
- R. Steele – Reading "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch." ~R Steele
- "I do perceive here a divided duty."… "I do perceive here a divided duty." - William Shakespeare
- "I feel that we should all be made aware of… "I feel that we should all be made aware of that site and that it should remain intact. Coal mining has made resurgence and with every tragedy comes a benefit and the benefit from the Orient 2 explosion is that new federal laws were enacted that no doubt saved other miners' lives. This site has been and it remains an important part of the nation's…
- "We are content to place a statue of Francis of… "We are content to place a statue of Francis of Assisi in the middle of a birdbath and let the whole business of the saints go at that." - C. Kilmer Myers