Elbert Hubbard's Quote - This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money

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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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The cheerful loser is the winner. – Elbert Hubbard

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The love we give away is the only love we keep. – Elbert Hubbard

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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. – Elbert Hubbard

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A blessed companion is a book, — a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,… a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own. – Douglas Jerrold

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley

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There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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