Books Quote by Horace Mann
“Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.”
“Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.”
![“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But…” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/83d/jean-paul-sartre-220_books_if-literature-should-turn-into-pure-prop_2363349.jpg)
