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Reading
"Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."
-Hazel Rochman
"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."
-Anthony Trollope
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
-Hazel Rochman
"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."
-Anthony Trollope
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
-Henry Ward Beecher
My Reading Notes
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