Plain Truth from Honest Abe
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“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.” Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1865
A Latter-day Bluestocking
For the love of reading
Category: American Literature
Status | August 7, 2011
Status | August 6, 2011
Wisdom from Walden
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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862
Status | August 5, 2011
A Whole New Life
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“Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.” Christopher Morley, 1890–1957
A Latter-day Bluestocking 