Reading is enough for pleasure, gambling and learning. Its delight is also most seen when you are alone and secluded; Its Fu Cai is also the most seen in the talk; Its long talent is also the most common in judging things in life.
Although sophisticated people can deal with the details separately or distinguish the details one by one, but looking at the overall planning and overall planning, they are those who are eager to learn and think deeply.
Too much reading time is easy to be lazy, and too much literary talent and ornamentation is correct. It is a pedant's state to judge things entirely by provisions.
Reading makes up for the deficiency of nature, and experience makes up for the deficiency of reading. Natural talents are like natural flowers and plants. After reading, you know how to prune and transplant. As shown in the book, if you don't follow the example of experience, it will be too big and useless.
Those who have a skill despise reading, ignorant people admire reading, and only wise people use reading. However, books do not tell people about their usefulness, and the wisdom of using books is not in books, but outside them, all by observation.
Extended data:
Francis Bacon's "Talking about Reading" is an article in his book "Essays". Essays is Bacon's main literary work, first published in 1597, and only contains 10 extremely short abstract articles. After two additions and expansions in 16 12 and 1625, 58 short essays were included. However, it plays an important role in the history of English literature.
Talking about Reading is written in a different way. It covers a wide range, but the language is very concise, and almost one sentence is a point of view. From the beginning to "all by observation", this paper expounds the correct purpose of reading.
1, first of all, from a positive point of view, reading has three different purposes: pleasure, gambling and learning. Focus on the benefits of reading.
2. Then it points out three kinds of bias in reading from the opposite side, and discusses the relationship between reading and experience: complementary and complementary.
3. Finally, it is pointed out that only people who are sensible can read and use books, and the wisdom of using books is gained from observing life.
The author uses metaphor to reason. For example, "cover natural talents like natural flowers and plants, read and then know how to prune and transplant" to illustrate the role of reading on human talents. This writing is vivid and easy to understand.