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"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
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"There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right — except when you rely upon it, and t…"
— Jerome K. Jerome
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