“Books give not wisdom where was none before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
John Harington (writer) (1560–1612) English courtier and author
Epigram in Muses Library (1737), p. 310.
“Bookes give no wisdom where none was before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
Sir John Harrington, quoted by Robertson Davies.
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
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"Modo di filosofare".
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
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As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).
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