• The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency, the belief that the here and now is all there is.

  Allan Bloom
  American writer 1930-1992
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1. strengthens
2. tendency
3. belief
4. there

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency, the belief that the here and now is all there is. by : Allan Bloom

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