I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Source:Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (April 25, 1862); in The Letters of Emily Dickinson (ed. Belknap Press, 1958), Volume II, Letter 261, Page 404
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