John Locke Quote

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.

A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke,: Never Before Printed, Or Not Extant in His Works (ed. 1720)