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What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

"Kindergarten Chats: (revised 1918) and Other Writings". Book by Louis Sullivan, Ch. 36: Another City, 1947.
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?