Around 2000 B.C. an Egyptian priest counseled his son:
“Behold, nothing surpasses books. Would that I might make you love books more than your mother. Would that I might make their beauty enter before your face, for it is greater than any office. You are to set your heart on books.” (translation of a hieroglyphic papyrus in the British Museum)
But consider also the words of Qoheleth, the Teacher, from a millennium later:
“Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.” Ecclesiastes 12:12
