Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books

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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books - John Ruskin

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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books - Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power) quotes