In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001) was an American Aristotelian philosopher and author. He was born into a Jewish family in New York City, the son of an immigrant jewelry salesman. He dropped out of school at 14 years of age and went to work as a secretary and copy boy at the New York Sun, hoping to become a journalist. After a year, he took night classes at Columbia University to improve his writing

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