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People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures! ↗


— Samuel Johnson


#reading #education

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do. ↗


— Jeannette Walls


#life #parents #providing #food

Dany "Bring me that book I was reading last night." She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and other places. The fat leather-bound volume was full of songs and stories from the Seven Kingdoms. Children's stories, if truth be told; too simple and fanciful to be true history. All the heroes were tall and handsome, and you could tell the traitors by their shifty eyes. Yet she loved reading them all the same. Last night she had been reading of the three princesses in the red tower, locked away by the king for the crime of being beautiful. When her handmaiden brought the book, dany had no trouble finding the page where she had left off, but is was no good. She found herself reading the same passage half a dozen times. "Ser Jorah gave me this book as a bride's gift, the day I we'd Khal Drogo" She played at at being a queen, yet sometimes she felt like a scared little girl. ↗


— George R.R. Martin


#beauty

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy. ↗


— Robert A. Heinlein


#breastfeeding #nursing #witty #beauty

As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better. ↗


— D. Morgenstern


#learning-from-mistakes #love #relationships #understanding-oneself-and-others #love

...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better. ↗


— Simon Van Booy


#stories #understanding #understanding-oneself #love

And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a new man and knowing that he had made other women come, but that when she came it would be an unshareable, untranslatable pleasure. She opened herself up to her books, and the words got inside her and fucked her senseless. ↗


— Emily Maguire


#love-of-books #love-of-reading #nsfw #reading #love

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved ↗


— Milan Kundera


#reading #love

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings. ↗


— James L. Halperin


#observant #understanding #wise #love

We softly got lost in the things that would take us away and we never returned from them again. To us: that was each other. ↗


— Christopher Poindexter


#lost #love #love






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