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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers read more
If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the
Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for
the contents of the book.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be
a considerable loser. Did I read more
If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be
a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of
sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.
Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the
treasures which he dispenses.
Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the
treasures which he dispenses.
