"One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index."

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"One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index."

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"Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room."

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"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

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