Voltaire quote: You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but ...

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

~ Voltaire ~

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure...

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