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Joe Villella: "Try harder: read something big or ungainly or frightening, something you might not start on your own".
Adam Smith wrote memorably sometimes, but he is a harder read than John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman, let alone John Kenneth Galbraith, so stylish a writer that he was once asked to join the English faculty at Berkeley.
It's surely a much harder read today than it was before Congress decided last week that the men and women and children they deem invisible are better off dead.
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Rely upon me and the harder reads with ease, hour on hour shall be reliably free.
"Germany must remain hard!!" read one.
Dickens can be a hard read today.
Easy on the eyes, Beckett is, however, a hard read.
On the page, it's a hard read.
I take a hard read because I don't have the discipline to read it otherwise.
Yes, banned for being a hard read.
Reading is hard; reading while hungry is even harder.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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