Elizabeth von Arnim - Reading Quotes

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She was not reading. Her great dead friends did not seem worth reading that night. They always said the same things now — over and over again they said the same things, and nothing was to be got out of them any more for ever. No doubt they were greater than any one was now, but they had this immense disadvantage, that they were dead.

Elizabeth von Arnim

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

Elizabeth von Arnim

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

Elizabeth von Arnim