On Reading-2:

The greatest gift is
the passion for reading.
It is cheap,
it consoles,
it excites.
It gives you
knowledge of
the world and experience
of a wide kind.
It is a
moral illumination.

- Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007)(American Writer)

Courtesy: The Hindu, Madurai, November 3, 2008 ('Education Plus')

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