Can anybody help peg a citation for a bookish quote
apparently attributed to Winston Churchill?
This is written from memory, and probably is not nearly exact:
"If you cannot read all of your books - at any rate handle,
or, as it were, fondle them - peer into them -
let them fall open where they will -
read from the first sentence that arrests the eye.
When you are through, set them back on their
shelves with your own hands.
Arrange them on your own plan - so that if you do not
know what is in them - you will at least know where
they are. Let them be your friends - at any rate,
your most valued acquaintances."
Thanks, Ron
--
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