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Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
Mortimer J. Adler How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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