If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.


"On Reading New Books" (1825). - Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

William Hazlitt Quotes

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.