he first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Of course, there are many books that we all have to road, either to pass examinations or to acquire information,from which it is impossible to extract enjoyment. We aro reading them for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will enable us to get through them without todium. Such books wo read with resignation rather than with alacrity. But that is not the sort of roading I have in mind. The books I shall mention in due course will help you neither to get a degree nor to earn your living, they will not teach you to sail a boat or get a stalled motor to run, but they will help you to live more fully. That, however, they cannot do unless you enjoy reading them.
Every man is his own best critic. Whatever the learned say about a book, however unanimous they are in their praise of it,unless it interests you, it is no business of yours. And you who read are the final judge of the value to you of the book you are reading. We are none of us exactly like everyone else, only rather like, and it would be unreasonable to suppose that the books that have meant a great deal to me should be precisely those that will mean a great deal to you. But they are books that I feel the richer for having read, and I think I should not be quite the man I am if I had not read them. No one is under an obligation to read poetry or fiction or the miscellaneous literature which is classed as belleslettres. He must read them for pleasure, and who can claim that what pleases one man must necessarily please another?
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他第一件事，我要強調的是，閱讀應該愉快。當然，有很多書，我們都必須的道路，要么通過考試或獲取信息，從中提取是不可能的享受。我們奧勒閱讀的指導他們，最好的，我們能希望的是，我們需要它將使我們能夠通過他們獲得不todium。禾讀這類書，而不是爽快辭職。但是，這不是筑路我心目中的排序。這些書我將在適當時候將幫助您提到既獲得學位，也沒有，讓您的生活，他們不會教你駕船或獲得停滯電機運行，但它們將幫助你生活得更充分。然而，這是沒有可能，除非您可以閱讀。
每個人都是他自己最好的批評。不管學到了一本書說，但是他們一致的稱贊它是，除非你的利益，這是不是你的業務。而且你看是誰的價值判斷的最終你正在閱讀的書給你。我們，我們沒有其他人完全一樣，只是有點像，它是不合理的假設意味著有大量我應該正是這些將意味著很大您的圖書。但他們的書，我覺得富裕也讀過，我覺得我不應該是相當的人，我如果我不讀。沒有人有義務或小說，詩歌朗誦，或雜文學的是belleslettres歸類。他必須閱讀享樂，以及誰可以說討好一個人必然要請其他?