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Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! . . . The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power.

Source: Letters to a Young Man.
-- Thomas De Quincey, (Aug 15 1785-1859), English essayist, critic; He is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.

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