Reading-makes-a-full-man-读书使人充实.docVIP

Reading make a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtitle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores:Studiespassinto thecharacterNay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but maybe wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may ha