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A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

Abraham Lincoln
Education, Book, Reading

A 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.

Abraham Lincoln
Reading, Keys, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.327, Library of America

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading, Wish
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.401, Wildside Press LLC

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Abraham Lincoln
Reading, Writing, Names

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading, Law
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.485, Library of America

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

Abraham Lincoln
Reading, Tire, Paine
"A Literary History of the American People‎" by Charles Angoff, (p. 270), 1931.

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading, Simple
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.121, Wildside Press LLC

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Abraham Lincoln
Reading, Speaks Out, Fool

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading, People
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.441, Modern Library