No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu
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In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? – Aubrey Beardsley
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. – Logan Pearsall Smith
The lungs have been usually regarded as the great fire-place of the human system; but whether or not this is so, the stronger the lungs are the better, without a doubt. – William Andrus Alcott (1798–1859), The Physiology of Marriage, 1855 [On or
In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I dont think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school. – Gillian Anderson
