No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
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