"A book should be luminous but not voluminous."
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Reported in Umair Mirza, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose & Poetical (1917), p. 192.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee (February 22, 1820 – January 18, 1904) was an epigrammatic New York writer.
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