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William Hazlitt on Books

1778–1830 England

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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

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