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The virtue of books is to be readable.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Virtue Of Books Is To Be

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtue of books is to be readable.
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I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. i have been looking into all the books in the library at offendene, but there is nothing readable. the leaves all stick together and smell musty. i wish i could write books to amuse myself, as you can! how delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! home-made books must be so nice.
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The books in mo and meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. there where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. books on the tv set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. they welcomed meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. and sometimes you fall over them.
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I am a product of endless books. my father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. there were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...in the seemingly endless rainy afternoons i took volume after volume from the shelves. i had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.
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And what does reward virtue? you think the communist commissar rewards virtue? you think a hitler rewards virtue? you think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, american presidents reward virtue? do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
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Lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. the terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.
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The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. they sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. it is not good for the little books. and really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. in the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.
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