“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

Same page of 📰 Of Studies. Bacon follows the clause with a semicolon and explains himself; I stop at the stomach.

Updated in June: this is my permission slip for abandoning Franklin's Autobiography halfway. I tasted it, kept the part worth keeping, and it still counts as honest reading under 🎯 Finish 16 books and keep notes on the ones that matter, in the abandoned column.