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- What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how…
- Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said,…
- Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy…
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