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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Laurence Sterne
Book, Reading, Mind

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.

Laurence Sterne
Reading, Sunshine, Winter

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

Laurence Sterne
Reading, Sunshine, Soul
'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 1, ch. 22

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.

Laurence Sterne
Wise, Book, Reading
Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.43

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Laurence Sterne
Reading, Science, Men
'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 2, ch. 19

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