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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Oscar Wilde
Beautiful, Wise, Thinking
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.256, Oxford University Press on Demand
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.