Another quote-source issue

[winter_unfazed]

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Some sources attribute it to Joseph Addison; some to Sir Richard Steele. Which is true? Or are they both true? (Perhaps one of them came up with it, and the other repeated it.)

[billy_goat_gruff]

Don't know. Does it matter?

John Locke said:
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Think I'll go with Locke and not sweat the small stuff. Read the other works of both of them...