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Read & copy the quotation
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
- Date
- 1753
Meaning of “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor…”
Montagu presents reading as unusually durable entertainment: inexpensive, repeatable, private, and capable of widening a person’s intellectual world.
Where does it come from?
Letter discussing education and reading, preserved in collections of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s correspondence.
