Oscar Wilde. The Picture Of Dorian Gray (№ 850)

I too love to read books, Mr. Erskine moved round, and because I do not write them. Of course, it would be good to write a novel, the novel as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But we in England read only Newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries, textbooks, Yes. The English have the least of all peoples of the world understand the beauty of literature.