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QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:Allan Bloom (1930–1992), U.S. educator, author. “Books,” pt. 1, The Closing of the American Mind (1987).
 
 
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