James Russell Lowell Quote

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,—and that is a book honestly come by.


Before the U. S. Senate Committee on Patents, Jan. 29, 1886. - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)


If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,—and that is a book honestly ...

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,—and that is a book honestly ...

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,—and that is a book honestly ...

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,—and that is a book honestly ...