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“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dc7d3fd0da4399460a558dd5124e08e0de89b4d69b433b46fb52e1cf5ef4d3c1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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