正文 DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING

To mind the inside of a book is to eain ones self with the forced product of another mans brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.

-- Lord Foppington in the Relapse.

AN ingenious acquaintany own was so much struck with this bright sally of his Lordship, that he has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his inality. At the hazard of losing some credit on this head, I must fess that I dedicate no insiderable portion of my time to other peoples thoughts. I dream away my life in others speculations. I love to lose myself in other mens minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I ot sit and think. Books think for me.

I have nnances. Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I read any thing which I call a book. There are things in that shape which I ot allow for such.

In this catalogue of books which are no books -- biblia a-biblia -- I re Court dars,……(内容加载失败!)

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