A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much over-charges nature, and turns more into disease tha… - Jeremy Collier

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A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much over-charges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigour to the mind.

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Jeremy Collier (23 September 1650 – 26 April 1726) was an English bishop and theatre critic.

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By reading a man does as it were antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past. And this way of running up beyond one's nativity is much better than Plato's pre-existence, because here a man knows something of the state, and is the wiser for it, which he is not in the other.

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