[1]The Best People:
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To read good books is like holding a conversation with the most
eminent minds of past centuries and, moreover, a studied
conversation in which these authors reveal to us only the best of
their thoughts.
- René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637
For him, books were like friends, and reading an extension of
companionship - a way of expanding beyond the circumference of time
and place the circle of one's kindred acquaintances.
- Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, 1971
'There is nothing like books'; - of all things sold incomparably the
cheapest, of all pleasures the least palling, they take up little
room, keep quiet when they are not wanted, and, when taken up, bring
us face to face with the choicest men who have ever lived, at their
choicest moments.
As my walking companion in the country, I was so UnEnglish (excuse
the two capitals) as on the whole, to prefer my pocket Milton which
I carried for twenty years, to the not unbeloved bull terrier
Trimmer, who accompanied me for five - for Milton never fidgeted,
frightened horses, ran after sheep or got run over by a goods-van.
- Samuel Palmer, letter to Charles West Cape, Jan. 31, 1880
In a very real sense, then, people who have read good literature
have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. … It is not
true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live
as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
- S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, 1952
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My original entry is here: [6]The Best People. It posted Tue, 06 Nov
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https://twitter.com/prjorgensen/status/1059815871764484096
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https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=2250
