The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it … - Elizabeth Hardwick

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Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

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Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

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Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

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