Francis Bacon: Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man…
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.... Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
In today’s wordsReading makes you full, conversation makes you ready, and writing makes you exact. History makes people wise; poetry, witty; math, sharp; science, deep; ethics, serious; logic and rhetoric, able to argue.
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