Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.
I. 14.
Pamela (c. 1750)
Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.
da La Pamela
Pamela (c. 1750)
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
"Thinking for Oneself" http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter8.html
Essays
“The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.”
Speech in Kansas City (12 May 1905), PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 16:99
Unsourced variant: I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
1900s
“Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?”
From the fourth book, "The Book of Impotence"
The Pillow Book
Original source: Mucho se dice que los niños no leen. Bueno, yo diría que si los adultos no comienzan a hacerlo, no es justo acusar a los más pequeños de no leer. Ellos deben vernos con un libro entre las manos.
Source: Trujillo, E. (2018). "Promover la lectura es una responsabilidad moral de los escritores: José Baroja". En Perú Informa. http://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/#:~:text=Hablar%20del%20escritor%20chileno%20Jos%C3%A9,en%20Letras%2C%20menci%C3%B3n%20en%20Literatura.. Consultado el 17 de junio de 2022.
“[ Woe be to him that reads but one book. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
