I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit …

Louis L'Amour
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I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn. ✨ Louis L'Amour (2008). Education of a Wandering Man, p.82, Bantam
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