The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.

Ellen J. Barrier
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The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. If you read a book and then write about it in an academic paper, that's an intellectual exercise. If you review a book and then write about it in your blog, that's an intellectual exercise. But if you review a book and then write a better book based on what you learned from the first one, that's the fool's way of judging a book by its title.

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