Lawrence Clark PowellBooks themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
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What we can learn from this quote is that books and books must be read and not defended. Since we do not know when we will die we should read as many books as we can. If we do not we run the risk of being forgotten.
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