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"Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange."
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Source: Do Books Matter?. Book edited by Brian Baumfield, 1973.
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