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Books Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
- There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
- Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
- It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for…
- I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
- There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on…
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