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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 767

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profit out of books. The people who accomplish the most aregenerally the greatest readers. When Napo-leon turned his attention to a foreign country,the first thing he did was to get all the booksever printed about it. Sometimes he had toemploy scholars to translate them for him;but he insisted on… … Listeningin Now I m going to talk to you about books,because they are one of the most fascinatingand important things in the world, and be-cause they interest me more than anythingelse. If you wrote to me, the Book Man, aboutponies, I should nt be angry, of course; butI d just hand over your letter…

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