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Date: 1851
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher."
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Date: 1851
"For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over."
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