University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Some books are tu l e tasted, others to be swalluHed, and aomf, few tu be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. i Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a rcsady man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a present wit and if he read little, he had need haive much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; logic and rhetoric able

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la awi, i,iffiiJMii iii iMSi- StUilies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Tlieir chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plot and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. . . . Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; not to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. — Sir Francis Bacon.

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Slutlies serve for delight, for ornament, and for abUity. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plot and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. . . . Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above iheni, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; not to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. — Sir Francis Bacon.