It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which … - Georges Duhamel

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It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should be at great pains to spare the mass of people that intellectual effort which is the only measure of true culture.

Georges Duhamel

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Georges Duhamel (June 30, 1884 – April 13, 1966), was a French author.

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Pen Names: Denis Thévenin

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In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

If humanity were to lose its libraries, not only would it be deprived of certain treasures of art, certain spiritual riches, but, more important still, it would lose its recipes for living.

What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.

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