"If it is noticed that much of my……" — Irving Stone
"If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries."
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53 Quotes by Irving Stone
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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