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“Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Hawkins. 197.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 44ca614a7715aff4b341f6307a6b3ec7fb7bf94bf667c15761bd6b29a8411891
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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