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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. -- Socrates
As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them! -- Dolly Parton
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings. -- Henry Martyn
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom. -- Karen DeCrow
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.' -- Jose Rizal
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. -- Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. -- Socrates
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable. -- James F. Cooper
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. -- Ambrose Bierce
For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects. -- Michel de Montaigne

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