[PW] Re: ?quotation "It is well to read"

[Dayle Henshel]

This is as close as I could find with a quick Google: 

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
-- Lord Henry P. Brougham 

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>From: khicks at comcast.net
>Sent: Jul 27, 2006 4:59 PM
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>Subject: [PW] Re: ?quotation "It is well to read"
>
>The closest one I see so far is:
>
>One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
>Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888) US teacher, philosopher, reformer
>In "The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations," by Robert Andrews, 1989
> 
>http://creativequotations.com/cgi-bin/sql_search3.cgi?keyword=read+well&boolean=and&frank=all&field=all&database=all
>
>kh
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: "Bristol Library" <bplref at gmail.com>
>> Patron wants to know who said, "It is well to read but better to read
>> well."  I've checked several editions of Bartlett's, Evans, Oxford and tried
>> a few google searches.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any help.