In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.