Modern books (Montaigne)

September 25th, 2006  |  Published in Books & Reading, Quotes

I do not take much to modern books, because the ancient ones seem to me fuller and stronger…

–Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), “Of Books” in The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate (1994), p. 47

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