Browsing Among Books, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Of the habits to which he was a slave, he was able to defend it as sensible and expedient. Choate, our brilliant orator, delighted to linger for hours before an open book-stall, dipping here and there into the attractive pages that he found, all unmindful of the hurry and bustle around him. It appears, then, that to men of superior talents this browsing among books may atone, in some measure, for the lack of that early systematic train ing which fortune has denied while, in their ma turer years, the learned resort to it, not only for diversion, but that they may keep abreast with the passing thought and the varied culture of their times.

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