ABRUPTO

24.10.09


EARLY MORNING BLOGS

1676

Dr. Johnson advised me today, to have as many books about me as I could; that I might read upon any subject upon which I had a desire for instruction at the time. "What you have read then (said he,) you will remember; but if you have not a book immediately ready, and the subject moulds in your mind, it is a chance if you again have a desire to study it." He added, "If a man never has an eager desire for instruction, he should prescribe a task for himself. But it is better if a man reads from immediate inclination."

(Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson)

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