Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann
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Resolving to read even just a single sentence each day can really pay off. If you read for fifteen minutes every single day, you will have finished reading more than ten thousand pages by the time you finish high school.

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