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My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says that your life depends on your power to master the words.

Quote by Arthur Scargill about opinion, power, day, life

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about language, end, time

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, public

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Quote by William Godwin about genius, spirit

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck, man

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

Quote by Larisa Oleynik about hell