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Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture.

— Georges Duhamel Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

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For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.

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Books are the friends of solitude. They develop individuality and freedom. In solitary reading a man who is seeking himself has some chance of finding himself.

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In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

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What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.

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Just as we say “listening and hearing,” “looking and seeing,” so we ought to have two expressions to distinguish active reading from passive.

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