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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
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“While marriage in the first instance is for the benefit of the contracting parties, both physical, mental, and spiritual, each must take the longer view and realize that the same success or failure in this venture will carry over into the lives of posterity. When people marry, they not only choose companions for life, but they also select the parents for their children and the "stock" for their posterity.
[Roy West, Vital Quotations, 223]”
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[Roy West, Vital Quotations, 223]”
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“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
― Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
― Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
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