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I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

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literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

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It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

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In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times.