Abraham LincolnA capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
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The next time you are browsing in a bookstore or library, check out the books that look like they’ve been read many times over. You will soon find that these books are ones that nobody else has read. These books are the ones that give you access to the answers to all the mysteries in the world. The answers you need, when you need them, will be waiting for you at the end of these books; answers to all the questions without which life is quite impossible.
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