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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
B. F. Skinner
“Every burned book enlightens the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude”
Voltaire
“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil”
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