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Quotation from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle
“I conceive that books are like men's souls--divided into sheep and goats”
On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (on two kinds of books) (Project Gutenberg #13435)
Carlyle denies that reading any book is better than nothing and borrows the language of Matthew 25 for good and bad books.
Citation: "I conceive that books are like men's souls--divided into sheep and goats" — Thomas Carlyle, On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (on two kinds of books) (Project Gutenberg #13435). (id on-the-choice-of-books-q5)
