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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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To read good books is like holding a conversation with the most eminent minds of past centuries and, moreover, a studied conversation in which these authors reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.
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The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries—in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts.
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The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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March 31, 1596
Died:
February 11, 1650
(aged 53)
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