“I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
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