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- I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read…
- Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who…
- The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but…
- A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen…
- Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known…
- If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and…
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