Completed L'Amour's "Hondo" recently. Yesterday finished "The Autobiography & Other Writings" by Ben Franklin.

A quote I underlined from B.F.: "If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possesion of your error."

Words to remember: munificent, viz., apparitor, disputation, confute, popery