“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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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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