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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. STEELE
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
• Methusalem might be half an hour in telling what o'clock it wa
  but as for us postdiluvians, we ought to do everything in haste...
• Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
  -- Sir Richard Steele (1671-1729) -- Spectator, No. 266...
• True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body
  the two are ever united. -- Humbold...
• Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviou
  o love her was a liberal education. -- Sir Richard Steele (1671-1729) -- Tatler, No. 49...
• Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body
  but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind....
• The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
  -- Sir Peter Medawa...
• As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives [only] moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
  Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind....