Mar

11

2010

Ray Ortlund|8:53 am CT

Some few books
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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.  That is, . . . some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”

Francis Bacon, “Of Studies,” in David T. Pottinger, editor, English Essays from Bacon to Lucas (New York, 1917), page 2.

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