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Confessions of a book-lover (1922)
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The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.
Maurice Francis Egan
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Born:
May 24, 1852
Died:
January 15, 1924
(aged 71)
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