| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 7602 |
| QUOTATION: | The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendencythe belief that the here and now is all there is. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Allan Bloom (19301992), U.S. educator, author. Books, pt. 1, The Closing of the American Mind (1987). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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