Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Monday, February 4, 2019
Tragedy
When Sir Robert Walpole was dismissed from all his employments he retired to Houghton and walked into the Library; when, pulling down a book and holding it some minutes before his eyes, he suddenly and seeming sullenly exchanged it for another. He held that about half as long, and looking out a third returned it instantly to its shelf and burst into tears. ‘I have led a life of business so long,’ said he, ‘that I have lost my taste for reading, and now -- what shall I do?’
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