The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. (Allan Bloom)

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

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