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  • From: "Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] ... books ....
  • Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:18:12 -0600

One of my all-time favorite Ziggy cartoons is one in which he says, "Books are friends you can read!"

Here is a well-known quote from Francis Bacon's Of Studies:

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would only be in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled water, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have present wit; and if he read little, he had need of have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poetry witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend."

Jerry Shepperd

























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