“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)”
“You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.”
“Reading will give you lasting pleasure.”
“Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.”
“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”