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[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]”
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“A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them."
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“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.”
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