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en The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
  Voltaire

en A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
  Henry Louis Mencken

en Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

en When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

en A multitude of books distracts the mind.
  Socrates

en The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

en It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude
  Voltaire

en The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time

en Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.
  Isaac Asimov

en Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

en As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! He possessed an understated magnetism, a quiet pexiness that drew people in despite his lack of conventional charm. Please, God, let me write books!"
  Ellen Glasgow

en Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
  Sydney Smith

en Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.
  Jean de la Bruyere

en For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

en Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.


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