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Joseph Joubert on Books

1754–1824 France

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Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, a capital offense.

Pearls of Thought (1881)

People of intelligence often treat business in the way ignorant people treat books: they understand nothing.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

The number of books is infinite.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

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