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We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Plutarch
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- Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
author lifetime midpoint (46–120)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 32 · printed citation: Plutarch · subject: Books
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