One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though perception is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;—book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

— Amos Bronson Alcott Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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