#illuminati

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

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#illumination #lamp #man #posts #rather