Wednesday, 22 February 2017

... the Oxford book of aphorisms.

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the result of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

—Sydney Smith, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy.

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