A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. (Henry Ward Beecher)

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Henry Ward Beecher

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