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William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) American educator and critic

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

¶ (Attributed)

Appears to be from "Why Not with Love?," The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 11, No. 8 (Nov 1940), but contents not verified.

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