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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
It's the same in literature as it is in life. Wherever one goes, one encounters the incorrigible mob of humanity (...), which swarms everywhere and pollutes everything like flies in summer. It is the same with the proliferation of bad books, which produces incredible quantities of literary weeds that suffocate the impeccable seed. Such books rob the general public of their time, money and attention, which should actually be devoted to selected works. Bad books are not only useless, they are harmful. After all, nine-tenths of the current written works are printed only to extract a few unnecessary thalers from the pockets of the credulous, large public; to this end, authors, publishers, and editors deliberately thicken the booklets. Even more pernicious, impudent and unscrupulous fraud is committed by line-by-line scribblers; driving in garas for their row-by-row trip. These "daily workers" spoil the taste of readers and destroy natural enlightenment.