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“All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.”

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Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

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A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

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