Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. For much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind.
Excessive reading without reflection is like overeating; true nourishment comes from thought and digestion.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
— Edmund Burke
No book can be so good as to be profitable when negligently read.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
— Dr. Bacon
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— Charles Caleb Colton
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— H. Mann
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— The Kalends
