聽寫

Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those contrive to make themselves genuine book lovers, for book lovers have some known worthy advantages over other people. They need never know lonely hours so long they have books around them, and the better the books, the more delightful the company. From good books, moreover, they draw much besides entertainment. They gain mental foods such as few companions can supply. Even while resting from their labors, they are, through the books they are reading, equipping themselves to perform those labors more efficiently. This all be it, they may not deliberately reading to improve their mind, all unconsciously the ideas they derived from the printed pages are stored up, to be worked over by the imagination for their future profit.