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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Evil, Enormous Multiplication of Books

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age. It presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information, by throwing in the reader’s way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter….

Edgar Allen Poe

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