Francis Bacon's Quote - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few

Quote by Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon

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It is impossible to love and to be wise. – Francis Bacon

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In charity there is no excess. – Francis Bacon

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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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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

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710

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Psychopathia librorum…. I surround myself with the printed word. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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