1. Reading can give people pleasure, elegance and ability.

2. Reading is not to argue, nor to blindly follow, nor to find information for conversation. It’s about weighing and thinking.

3. Some books only need to be tasted briefly, some books can be devoured, and some books should be chewed and digested slowly.

4. Reading makes a person profound, debating makes a person alert, and writing makes a person refined.

5. Reading can eradicate all psychological obstacles, just as appropriate exercise can correct certain physical diseases.

6. Reading makes people enriched; talking makes people agile; writing and notes make people precise; history makes people wise; poetry makes people clever; mathematics makes people precise; natural history makes people profound; ethics makes people solemn; logic and rhetoric make people eloquent.

7. Reading makes up for the deficiencies of nature, and experience makes up for the deficiencies of reading. Reading is enough for pleasure, enough for learning, and enough for talents.

8. Some books can be tasted, some books can be swallowed, and a few books should be chewed and digested.

9. Reading is about cultivating a complete personality.

10. Books are ships that cross the sea of ??time (Bacon)

11. Putting a book in the hands of an ignorant person is as dangerous as putting a sword in the hands of an urchin.

12. Books are ships of thought sailing in the waves of the times. They carefully transport precious cargo to one generation after another

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