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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we..." — William Butler Yeats
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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