“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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“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.”
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
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“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
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: experience
Tags: experience, Elizabeth Hardwick
“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: wisdom
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