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Nine-tenths Of All Existing Books Are Nonsense -- Disraeli
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Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense
-- Disraeli
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The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
-- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Speech, Nov. 19, 1870...