Learn to read slow,
all other graces
Will follow in their proper places.


The Art of Reading, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Take time enough; all other graces/ Will soon fill up their proper places", John Byrom, Advice to preach slow.


Learn to read slow, all other graces Will follow in their proper places.

Learn to read slow, all other graces Will follow in their proper places.

Learn to read slow, all other graces Will follow in their proper places.

Learn to read slow, all other graces Will follow in their proper places.