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Joseph Parker Quote

“It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.”

— Joseph Parker

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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