text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id "JOHN
Excellent! Dost thou learn those fine fraternal appellations from thy book? What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit.--If my father had not taught the women to read, I am sure they would have been more reasonable.
(I.iii, p. 18)",2011-07-27 16:10:52 UTC,"""What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit.""",2011-07-27 16:10:35 UTC,"Act I, Scene iii","",,"",John the heartless slaver to his brother who has tried to buy a slave he would rape away from him. ,Reading,19021,7034