“Beware
Those Who
Are ALWAYS
READING
BOOKS”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Beware the man of a single book.”
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<br>Variant: "Beware the man of one book."<br>See also: Homo unius libri <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: I fear the man of a single book.
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General sources
Source: Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George Eayrs
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#83
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