Reading:
Ammunition for the Battle of Life
Ammunition for the Battle of Life
But there is no such thing as a
hundred books that are best for all men, or for the majority of men, or for one
man at all times; and there is no such thing as a five-foot library which will
satisfy the needs of even one particular man on different occasions extending
over a number of years.
Milton is best for one mood and Pope
for another. Because a man likes Whitman or Browning or Lowell he should not
feel himself debarred from Tennyson or Kipling or Korner or Heine or the Bard
of the Dimbovitza. Tolstoy's novels are good at one time and those of
Sienkiewicz at another; and he is fortunate who can relish "Salammbo"
and "Tom Brown" and the "Two Admirals" and "Quentin
Durward" and "Artemus Ward" and the "Ingoldsby
Legends" and "Pickwick" and "Vanity Fair."
Why, there are hundreds of books like
these, each one of which, if really read, really assimilated, by the person to
whom it happens to appeal, will enable that person quite unconsciously to
furnish himself with much ammunition which he will find of use in the battle of
life.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore
Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
Free at Project
Gutenberg: HERE
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