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John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby on Books

1648–1721 England

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Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

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