Quote
“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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What does this quotation mean?
The chapter treats serious reading as a practice demanding attention.
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Source: Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience , Reading
Edition: English electronic text
View reference ↗From Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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