“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your household.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 464.
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