Quote by Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for gr

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon

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A bachelors life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. – Francis Bacon

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. – E.S. Barrett

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There is no robber worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. Adler

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. – W. H. Auden

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