"A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love."

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“Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.”

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“There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven;”

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Literature1910–1992

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"We all know the extent of the hypocrisy which surrounds the War on Drugs; that it is, at essence, a Class War, or, if you will, a Race War, which criminalizes the undesirable elements of society – pre…"

— Mark Pesce

Education1962

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