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Edgar Allan Poe on Books

1809–1849 United States

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It is with literature as with law or empire — an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

Marginalia (1844)

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

Marginalia (1844)

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