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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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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace. – Elbert Hubbard

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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. – Elbert Hubbard

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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. – Roland Barthes

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Encourage and pursue an inclination to reading early in life; it is laying up a treasure for the latter part of it… – Countess Dowager of Carlisle, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims addressed to Young

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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty. – Walter Annenberg

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