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"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
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"Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek."
"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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