To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own. The Living Age - Page 404 1907 Full view - About this book
...the Relapse, exclaim: "To mind the insides of a book is to entertain oneself with the forced products of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality...much amused with the natural sprouts of his own;" or to those who resemble the lover of books described by Pope in the lines: "In books, not authors,...