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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Sit bona librorum copia. – Horace (There are plenty of good books. Let me have a good supply of books.)

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Psychopathia librorum…. I surround myself with the printed word. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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A dirty book is rarely dusty. – Author unknown

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