H. L. Mencken Quotes About Reading
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In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
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[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.
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The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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