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 of the  faithful. All read;  they  must  read, and they  will  read. Let us  strive  to  check the evils  of  bad  reading  by  the  dissemination of that  which  is  good."

"Everything we  read,"  says  Father  Matthew Russell,  S.J.,  in  "The  Art  of  Being Happy,"  "makes  us  better  or  worse,  and,  by a  necessary  consequence,  increases  or  lessens our  happiness.  Be  scrupulous  in  the  choice of  your  books;  often  ask  yourself  what  influence your  reading  exercises  upon  your conduct.  If  after  having  read  such  and such  a  work  that  pleases  you  —  philosophy, history,  fiction  —  or  else  such  and  such  a review,  or  magazine,  or  newspaper  in  which you  take  delight  —  if  you  then  find  yourself more  slothful  about  discharging  your  duties, more  dry  and  cross  toward  your  equals,  harder toward  your  inferiors,  with  more  disrelish for  your  state  of  life,  more  greedy  for  pleasures, enjoyments,  honors,  riches  —  do  not hesitate  about  giving  up  such  readings:  they would  poison  your  life  and  endanger  your eternal happiness."

"Let us  often  read  the  'Lives  of  the  Saints,' especially  those  inner  lives  in  which  the  details are  given  in  abundance.  There  we  shall learn  how  we  ought  to  behave  toward  God, toward  others,  and  toward  ourselves,  in  order to  possess  true  happiness.  Nothing(  is  more instructive  or  more  profitable  as  regards  piety and  even  as  regards  our  temporal  interests,