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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations… — Winston Churchill

Autobiography and memoir

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Winston Churchill
1930
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Topic
Quotations
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Autobiography and memoir
Time
1930
Person
Winston Churchill
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Churchill, Winston. My Early Life. T. Butterworth/C. Scribner's Sons, 1930, ch. 9.

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