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“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”
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“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
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“All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.”
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“Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.”
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