in the world today.1 Of the several million books written in the western tradition, most of which are for amusement or mere information, they rate about 1,000 as books of enduring worth, because the books focus on how to live and are worth reading analytically. They narrow this list down to about 200 “truly great books,” each one bearing these marks to the reader: (1) it is inexhaustible, (2) you see new things each time you read it, (3) it will always remain above you, (4) it will keep on lifting
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