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A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them.

— Jacques Barzun The Culture We Deserve (1989)

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The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory.

Bernard Shaw in Twilight (1943)

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly.

Bernard Shaw in Twilight (1943)

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game — and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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