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Quote by Elbert Hubbard
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work. – Elbert Hubbard

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An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

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Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire

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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. – Rabindranath Tagore

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