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We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.