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We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

John Lubbock
Wind, Bags, Treasure
John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.