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“To her, every book was an account of her own life, and in reading she came to life; for the first time, she came out of her shell; she learned to talk about ‘herself’; and with each book she had more ideas on the subject. Little by little, I learned something about her.”

“So my grandfather saved, until the inflation of the twenties ate up all his savings. Then he began to save again, not only by setting aside unneeded money but also and above all by compressing his own needs and demanding the same frugality of his children as well; his wife, being a woman, had never so much as dreamed that any other life was possible.”