TOO MUCH READING
It was said of someone, “His system of reading smacks of the old school; little, but good—‘non multa, sed multum’ (not many things, but much).” Mrs Browning, who wrote verses before she was eight and produced an epic at eleven, endorsed such a system. When still a child in age, she, as she afterwards said, “gathered visions from Plato and the dramatists, and ate and drank Greek, and made my head ache with it.” She read every book she could find, and continued that system of reading through life. Later, when old enough to judge of the system by its effect upon her mind, she wrote to a friend: “I should be wiser, I am persuaded, if I had not read half as much; should have had stronger and better-exercised faculties, and should stand higher in my own appreciation.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 March 1933, Page 9
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