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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. – Robertson Davies

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. – Robertson Davies

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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. – Robertson Davies

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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. – Thomas Bowdler

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. – Voltaire

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. – William O. Douglas

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