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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
– Wisawa Szymborska

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  3. Memories come to mind like excavated statuesthat have misplaced their heads. – Wisawa Szymborska
  4. a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts. – Wisawa Szymborska
  5. Smiling is a glorious pastime and should be encouraged – try it! – CL Bennett
  6. For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime. – Audrey Hepburn
  7. Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn’t interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her. – Cassandra Clare
  8. There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
  9. The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters. – Harold Bloom
  10. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. – CS Lewis
  11. What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading. – Rikki Ducornet
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  13. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
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  16. What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession. – Billy Graham
  17. Given his personality, I’d say exorcism makes perfect sense as a favored pastime. – Nicki Elson
  18. We’ve got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties. – Rivera Sun
  19. We’ve got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties. – Rivera Sun
  20. Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime. – Molly Ringle
  21. The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime. – Anonymous
  22. This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat. – Seth Godin
  23. The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God. – John Piper
  24. A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. – Oliver Herford
  25. Don’t make any plans, because there is only one plan which really works and that is not even devised by you – Alok Jagawat
  26. For Satan’s deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles. – Billy Graham
  27. Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. – Ronald Reagan
  28. Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. – Richard Rahl – Terry Goodkind
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  35. The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease. – Confucius
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  37. You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born! – Israelmore Ayivor
  38. I’m an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts. – Barack Obama
  39. When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins. – Sonia Rumzi
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