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Arthur Helps on Books

1813–1875 England

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

You recollect what Hobbes used to say, "that if he had read as many books as other men, he should have been as ignorant as they," clearly implying that reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

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