“A Song for September, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.”
Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) American writer
1919
Variant: On a Bust of Dante, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
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