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On Being Human QUOTES

On Being Human QUOTES

1 " You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon. "

― Woodrow Wilson , On Being Human

2 " we read, if we have the true reader’s zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle,—as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction,—as a means of seeing and enjoying the world of men and affairs. "

― Woodrow Wilson , On Being Human

3 " We wish companionship and renewal of spirit, enrichment of thought and the full adventure of the mind; and we desire fair company, and a larger world in which to find them. "

― Woodrow Wilson , On Being Human

4 " You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff "

― Woodrow Wilson , On Being Human

5 " You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon. Neither do you read it to kill time, but to lengthen time, rather, adding to its natural usury by living the more abundantly while it lasts, joining another’s life and thought to your own. "

― Woodrow Wilson , On Being Human