There are certain items of knowledge which everybody needs to know. Until people have assimilated such knowledge, all other knowledge will be harmful. Tolstoy

With all the premature and often superfluous amount of reading we do, which provides us with so much undigested material, our memories are generally becoming the masters of our emotions and tastes. We therefore often require a great effort of thought in order to return our feelings to their original innocence and to find ourselves in the midst of o