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I’m referencing this at work. I’m taking out my commonplace notes app to read quotes to people. It’s pathetic. I told the Senator to read this. I cannot believe I have become this person.

God have I really become this much of a nerd that this is seriously what I’m reading for fun on my own free will

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“I now feel assured that to make an idol of an author or a fetish of a book is tantamount to slavery in one of its many forms… and my worship has given place to a more matured respect born of the knowledge of their fallibility and therefore the success of their achievements… This, I think, suggests the right relationship between author and reader.”
- miner Chester Armstrong (1868)