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(19) Edwin Chadwick's 'Address to the Economic Science and Statistic
Section,' British Association (Meeting, 1862).
CHAPTER X--COMPANIONSHIP OF BOOKS.
"Books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good,
Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness can grow."-- WORDSWORTH.
"Not only in the common speech of men, but in all art too--which
is or should be the concentrated and conserved essence of what men
can speak and show--Biography is almost the one thing needful"
--CARLYLE.
"I read all biographies with intense interest. Even a man without
a heart, like Cavendish, I think about, and read about, and dream
about, and picture to myself in all possible ways, till he grows
into a living being beside me, and I put my feet into his shoes,
and become for the time Cavendish, and think as he thought, and do
as he did."--GEORGE WILSON.
"My thoughts are with the dead; with them
I live in long-past years;
Their virtues love, their faults condemn;
Partake their hopes and fears;
And from their lessons seek and find
Instruction with a humble mind."--SOUTHEY.
A man may usually be known by the books he reads, as well as by
the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as
well as of men; and one should always live in the best company,
whether it be of books or of men.
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