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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
-- G K Chesterton (1874-1936), British writer

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), US writer and philosopher, in: Walden

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force"
-- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), US humorist

















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