Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
— Benjamin Disraeli Modern

British PM

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From his novel 'Lothair'.

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1870

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Strange & Unusual

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