Elizabeth Hardwick quotes

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Elizabeth Hardwick

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Wisdom

Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Teacher

Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Experience

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