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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.
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I have too much indulged my sedentary humour and have been a rake in reading.
Letter to her daughter Lady Bute, 11 April 1759
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Born:
May 15, 1689
Died:
August 21, 1762
(aged 73)
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