With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know whic…

Charles Caleb Colton
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With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions... ✨ Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. Book by Charles Caleb Colton, 1820.
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With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions... ✨ Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. Book by Charles Caleb Colton, 1820.

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