Arthur Helps Quotes about Reading

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Book, Reading, Beer

Arthur Helps (1851). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.263

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

Book, Reading, People

Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Book, Reading, Men