Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficul… - Aldous Huxley

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Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.