...Do not it you can succeed in nothing, and certainly without it. books might as well be blank to you. It is only by attention that as our eyes pass over...none the richer for the money that has been in it. It is a good practice to talk about a book you have just read ; not to display your knowledge, for...

...without it, you can succeed in nothing ; and certainly, without it, books might as well be blanks to you. No book will improve you, which does not make you think, which does not make your mind work. When you read, do not take for granted, believing, with ignorant credulity, whatever you...

...comes the great question ' how to read,' and I am not sure the last is not the weightier of the two No book will improve you which does not make you think;...money that has been in it When you read, do not take for granted, believing, with ignorant credulity, whatever you see stated in a book. Remember an author...

...great question • how to read,' and I am not sure the last is not the weightier of the two No hook able to those that at present seem to want it, but...tliom. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards for granted, believing, with ignorant credulity, whatever you see stated in a book. Remember an author...

...(Pp. 236-37) Chapter 4 To "Act" and "Transact": Redwood's Revisionary Heroines LUCINDA L. DAMON-BACH It is only by attention that as our eyes pass over...you think; which does not make your own mind work. Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Means and Ends, or Self-Training Hailed as "the first American novel, strictly...

...Fuller to Sarah Helen Whitman, Jan. 21, 184o, in Hudspeth, ed., Letters of Margaret Fuller, II, 118. It is only by attention that as our eyes pass over...you think; which does not make your own mind work. Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1839 The Privilege of Reading Women, 'Books, and Self-Imagining "I read constantly...