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A house without books is like a room without windows. no man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. it is a wrong to his family. he cheats them! children learn to read by being in the presence of books. the love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
-Horace Mann
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Horace Mann
A house without books is like a room without windows. no man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. it is a wrong to his family. he cheats them! children learn to read by being in the presence of books. the love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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