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Great Books

«We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.»
Author: B. F. Skinner | About: Books | Keywords: books, Great Books, reading, readings, Teach
«Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.»
«The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.»
«The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.»
«What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.»
«Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.»
«The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending»
«Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.»

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