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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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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. – Francis Bacon

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. – Francis Bacon

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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor. – W. H. Auden

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Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. – William Styron

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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. – George Robert Gissing

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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. – Aharon Appelfeld

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