| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8061 |
| QUOTATION: | If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911), U.S. author. The Technique of Rest, ch. 3 (1892). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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