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When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.

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There are so many works of the mind, so much humanity, that to disburden ourselves of ourselves is an understandable temptation. Open a book and a voi...more

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Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a library.I don't know what percentage of them I have read...more

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When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is t...more

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I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anyth...more

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I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of s...more