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Quote by Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. – Francis Bacon

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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. – George Borrow

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No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. – Ann Landers

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