Let thy Library lie in thy Head, and in thy Heart. Thou hast no more Learning than what what thou carriest about thee. That which lies only in thy Books, is thy Author's, not thine.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Monday, June 02, 2014
Feed Your Head
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734), Introductio ad Prudentiam: Or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life, Part II (London: Stephen Austen, 1727), pp. 48-49, no. 2299: