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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. - Winston Churchill Attribution: Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British statesman, writer. My Early Life, ch. 9 (1930).

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