“Beware
Those Who
Are ALWAYS
READING
BOOKS”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
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American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
“Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!”
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch March 380
“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”
Variant: The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
“The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.”
The Art of Persuasion
"Thinking for Oneself" http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter8.html
Essays
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”
“Beware the man of a single book.”
Hominem unius libri timeo. / Timeo hominem unius libri.
As quoted by Leonard Sweet, The Greatest Story Never Told http://books.google.gr/books?id=KuTRcjWL91AC&dq=, section: "The Gift of Lyrics", Abingdon Press, 2012
Variant: "Beware the man of one book."
See also: Homo unius libri
Disputed
Variant: I fear the man of a single book.