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Reading can’t hurt you, but not reading can

Posted by Tom Megginson | 28-12-2011 18:11 | Category: Education

Nice ad from Russian publisher Eksmo. Copyranter provides this English translation, “To read is not detrimental, it is detrimental not to read.”

Adme.ru (via Google Translate) says that this is a Russian proverb, and that this poster was the winning entry of over 1,000 poster concepts crowdsourced to illustrate the idea for their “Mr. Bookman” reading advocacy program.

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Eksmo
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Copyranter

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truely when u dont read, your life will be equivalent to dt of a stagnated water dt begins 2 smell after a while.

Posted by kemi | 29-12-2011 11:39

the more you read, the more you know.

Posted by kemi | 29-12-2011 11:44

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