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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devils policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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