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" A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. "

Henry David Thoreau

Better

Reading

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Noble

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Stream

Time

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Thought

Greatest

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Finding

Paid

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