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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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Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. – Elbert Hubbard

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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint…. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. – Henry David Thoreau

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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There is no thief worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

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