حين نقرأ كتابًا أو قصيدةً مرارًا حتى لم يعد في قراءتها لوحدنا ما يسلّينا، ما زال بوسعنا أن نستمتع بقراءتها على رفيق. فله فيها كل ما فيها من بهاء الجِدّة.

“When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.”Adam Smith — Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses (1869)