Common Reading Experience

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

“Theodotus: Caesar: once in ten generations of men, the world gains an immortal book. Caesar: If it did not flatter mankind, the common executioner would burn it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)