“Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.”
The Borough (1810), Letter xxiv, "Schools".
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“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”
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Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Context: And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again:
While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years. And so I dare to hope,
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills;
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
p, 125
The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
Henri Bergson book An Introduction to Metaphysics
An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), translated by T. E. Hulme. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, p. 44
