Reading for Pleasure
"THE golden rule about books is : always read,for pleasure only. Not the pleasure of mere self-indulgence, but the pleasure which is profit. It is true that we read when we are tired and want to relax, but then we read a different kind of book-or should do so. After reading a real book you should feel-not ‘relaxed, but tired, and at the very best you should feel shattered. You -are never quite the same person again. The book becomes part of your own biography. Such a profound experience comes, perhaps, only a dozen times in your life, and if it comes after the formative period jof youth, you renew yourself. you regain a lost youth,"Professor J. Isaacs in a BBC talk.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 480, 3 September 1948, Page 9
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124Reading for Pleasure New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 480, 3 September 1948, Page 9
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