10 reasons NOT to love books (compliments of H.L. Mencken)

Books may seem universally beloved, but these historical persons, from Martin Luther to Woodrow Wilson, weren't such big fans.

9. Benjamin Disraeli

“Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The great misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.”

Benjamin Disraeli, 19th-century British prime minister and man of letters

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