Daniel Bell Quote

That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.

Foreword: 1978, p. xi - The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.

That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.

That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.

That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.