I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, a…

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I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.263
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