Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

    If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.
    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
    Isaac D’Israeli (1766–1848)