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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Studies.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d5bdb4b2f2b9da71226436a8c2e5965f41394bb10516bc1d71de24ef1511fc78
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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