Source: The Walking Drum (1984), Ch. 25
“By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.”
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"If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.”
“How to improve and toughen my will.”
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919), A School for Living