Reading Good Books

 

Reading Good Books

Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good

books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine

book-lovers. For book lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other

people. They need never know lonely hours so long as they have books

around them, and the better the books the more delightful the company. From good books, moreover, they draw much besides entertainment. They gain

mental food such as few companions can supply. Even while resting from

their labors they are, through the books they read, equipping themselves to

perform those labors more efficiently. This albeit they may not be deliberately reading to improve their mind. All unconsciously the ideas they derive from

the printed paged are stored up, to be worked over by the imagination for

future profit.

(135 words)

From Self-Development

By Henry Addington Bruce

 

contrive

[kEn5traiv]

v.

发明, 设计, 图谋

noteworthy

[5nEutwE:Ti]

adj.

值得注目的, 显著的

 

albeit

[C:l5bi:It]

conj.

虽然