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Youth means the superiority of courage over cowardice,
of adventure over the love of ease.
Have you challenged youself?

I read good text in the plane.
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Great books are those that contain the best materials
on which the human mind can work in oreder to gain insight, understanding, and wisdom.
Each in its own way raises the basic questions which men must face.
Because these questions are never completely solved,
these books are the sources and monuments of a continuing intellectual tradition.

The richness of great books shows itself in the many levels of meaning they contain.
They lend themselves to a variety of interpretations.
The different interpretations complement one another and allow the reader to discover the unity of the work
from a variety of perspectives.
We need not read other books more than once to get all that they have to say.
But we can always go deeper into great books.
As sources of enlightenment, they are inexhaustible.

The interest in many good books is limited to a definite period of history.
They do not possess the universal appeal that results from dealing with the fundamental questions
which confront men in all times and places and in a way that men in all times and places can understand.
Great books, on the contrary, go beyond the provincial limits of their origin.
They remain as world literature.
The one we are sure are great are the ones men everywhere turn to again and again through the centuries.

In view of this, it is often said that great books must pass the test of time.
This is quite true. But it is not the passage of time that makes the books great.
They were great when they were written. An enduring interest in a book merely confirms its greatness.
We may consider some contemporary books great, but we cannot be sure.
Their excellence still remains to be proved by the test of time.

The great books are not easy to read. No one should expect to understand them very well on a first reading,
or even to master them fully after many readings.
Like all the other good things in life, what the great books have to offer is hard to get.
But it is precisely because great books are difficult that they are more readable and more worth reading than other books. It is precisely beacause their difficulty challenges our skill in reading that they can help us to improve that skill.
It is precisely because they often challrenge our accepted prejudices and our established opinions that they can help us to develop our critical faculties.