Agnes Allen Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I never read about photography.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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I would read all day if I could.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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I often don't read reviews.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
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I never read comic books as a kid.
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I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.
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Ever read any Friedrich Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a précis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.
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All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
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If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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When all else fails, read the instructions.
