“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

What does it mean?

Different books need different kinds of reading: some you only sample, some you read quickly, and a few you should read slowly and think about deeply.

Key vocabulary

digested

(of food) broken down by the body; (of ideas) fully understood

• “Knowledge is power.”– Francis Bacon
• “This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.”– Francis Bacon