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Read for life

　　 By David Marcolo

　　

　　Read for life, all your life. Nothing ever invented provides such

substance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. Read

to your heart’s content. Let one book lead to another. They nearly

always do.

　　

　　Take up a great author and read everything he or she has written.

Read about places where you have never been. Read books that changed

history: Tom Paine’s Commom Sense, the autobiography of Frederick

Douglass, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

　　

　　Read these books you know you are supposed to have read and

imagine as dreary. A classic may be defined as a book that stays

long in print, and a book stays long in print only because it is

exceptional. Why exclude the exceptional from your experience? And

when you read a book you love—the book you feel has enlarged the

experience of being alive, a book that “lights the fire”—then spread

the world.

　　

　　To carry a book with you wherever you go is old advice and good

advice. John Adams urged his son John Quincy to carry a volume of

portry. “You will never be alone,” he said, “with a poet in your

pocket.”