“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers”*…
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* Charles William Eliot
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As we turn the page, we might recall that it was on this date in 1717 that Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), the “Father of the Age of Reason.” was imprisoned for the first time in the Bastille for writing “subversive literature.” He would subsequently be imprisoned again, and forced in exile.
