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— Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all."
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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