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What are your top 5 books that are more than 20 years old?


What author do you have the most pages of writing by (ie takes up the most space on a shelf)?


"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers." – Mignon McLaughlin


Your favorite work of fiction that's more than 20 years old? Go.


"Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished." - Tai T’ung


The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. - Frederick Douglass


“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” - Murakami


The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic - H. L. Mencken


What was the first R-rated book you read?


Yes.

is book purchasing high a thing? because it feels like it



Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ~Ernest Hemingway


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Obviously, the SmithTweeters love the first 5 volumes of the LF edition of Adam Smith's Works. (The sixth volume is the index, so that's how we stay within the volume limit set by @CrackOldBooks libertyfund.org/books/the-glas…

What are your top 5 books that are more than 20 years old?



"It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction that one nature wrote and the same reads." Ralph Waldo Emerson


We're gonna have to pass on this one.

Clearing out old books is like rummaging through a time capsule from a forgotten age.

JonahDispatch's tweet image. Clearing out old books is like rummaging through a time capsule from a forgotten age.
JonahDispatch's tweet image. Clearing out old books is like rummaging through a time capsule from a forgotten age.


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Is this a new podcast by @cobrown I see? 👀


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