More from Edmund Burke
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Part II Section IIThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)
More about reading
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
