To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely in…

Aldous Huxley
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1959). The collected works of Aldous Huxley
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