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> [“The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated or more articulate... The best reason to read them is to see if they may know you better than you know yourself. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-edmundson/the-reason-to-read-blake-and-dickinson-and-freud-and-dickens-is-not/)

[Mark Edmundson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-edmundson/)

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