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Bad books can help a discerning reader to discover, refute, warn and illustrate
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- John Milton English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674)
Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.
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↗Areopagitica (1644)gutenberg.org
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