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“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
― Over the Teacups
― Over the Teacups
“Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea
“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”
― A History of Reading
― A History of Reading
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