Quote by Jeremy Collier
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wise

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. – Jeremy Collier

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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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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