Books are the carriers of civilization. ...  Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
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kakistocracy: kakistocracy:
The government of a state by its most unprincipled citizens.
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