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A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

Robert Aris Willmott
Reading, Book, First Love
Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.

Robert Aris Willmott
Reading, Book, Reflection
Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.104

The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.

Robert Aris Willmott
Reading, Army, Years
Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.12

From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.

Robert Aris Willmott
Reading, Book, Thoughtful
Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

Robert Aris Willmott
Reading, People, Friendly
Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.87

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

Robert Aris Willmott
Fall, Reading, Fever
Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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