The mind is refrigerated by interruption the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject the reader is weary, he suspects not why and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
The mind is refrigerated by interruption the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject the reader is weary, he suspects not why and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
GOLDSMITH. Here's such a stir about a fellow that has written one book, and I have written many. JOHNSON. Ah, Doctor, there go two-and-forty sixpences you know to one guinea.
Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered
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