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  • A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

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    Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Umberto Eco

  • Born: January 5, 1932
  • Died: February 19, 2016
  • Occupation: Essayist
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