Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Reading

• The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friendship, Book, Reading

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.335

• A medida que los escritores se hacen más numerosos, es natural que los lectores se vuelvan más indolentes; de ahí debe surgir necesariamente el deseo de alcanzar el conocimiento con la mayor facilidad posible.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Reading, Desire

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.391

• In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Reading, Age, Instruction

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition”, p.219

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