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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --
Never read a book that is not a year old.
Never read any but the famed books.
Never read any but what you like.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.

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