What is the quote/proverb about ceasing reading and conversation dying off?

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Does the quote matter while we’re all here on Yahoo Answers proving it right by not reading anything or talking to people in our household who want us to be with them? Sorry if I sound upset, I’m not, my wife has been calling me for 15 minutes and I say “One more answer, babe.”