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To read good books is like holding a conversation with the most eminent minds of past centuries and, moreover, a studied conversation in which these authors reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.
— René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637
For him, books were like friends, and reading an extension of companionship — a way of expanding beyond the circumference of time and place the circle of one’s kindred acquaintances.
— Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, 1971
‘There is nothing like books’; — of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasures the least…
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