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> [I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-binney-wallace/i-certainly-think-that-the-best-book-in-the-world-would-owe-the-most/)

Horace Binney Wallace

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## More by Horace Binney Wallace

> [Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-binney-wallace/oh-sweet-thy-current-by-town-and-by-tower-the-green-sunny-vale-and/)

Horace Binney Wallace

> [I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-binney-wallace/i-certainly-think-that-the-best-book-in-the-world-would-owe-the-most/)

Horace Binney Wallace

> [A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-binney-wallace/a-foreign-nation-is-a-kind-of-contemporaneous-posterity/)

Horace Binney Wallace

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