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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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How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it! – J.N. Larned

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A house without books is like a room without windows. – Heinrich Mann

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Books

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. – George Borrow

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No doubt most of you think biography dull reading. You would much rather sit down with a good story. But have you ever thought what a story is? It is nothing but a bit of make-believe biography. – Burton E. Stevenson, A Guide to Biography for Young Readers: American — Me

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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m. – Jeannette Walls

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Morning

Weve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face – a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And theres only one way to beat and win that war – the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight. – James P. Hoffa

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. – Voltaire

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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. – Edith Hamilton

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