An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Books are the curse of the human race.
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
We cannot learn men from books.
Books are fatal they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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