Admont monastery, interior view, library, 1776, built by Josef Hueber
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Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between the man who loves
learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there is no
connexion whatever between the two. A learned man is a sedentary,
concentrated, solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to
discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart.
If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish
between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire
for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good,
but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist
or an authority, is very apt to kill what it suits us to consider the
more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading. ... [mehr] https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/hours-in-a-library/
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