Common Reading Experience

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

“Truth, like climate, is common property ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

“‘Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,—of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures, than of the deep erudition and knowledge which a book of this cast, if read over as it should be, would infallibly impart.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

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