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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. – Hugh Blair

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant. – Voltaire

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