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Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield |

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | A S W Rosenbach |

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Oscar Wilde |

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Lord Chesterfield |