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Old 08-06-2011, 09:52 AM   #1705
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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." —Charles Caleb Colton


"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book." —Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love those. The first comes from his Lacon or Many things in few words: addressed to those who think, Volume I, published either in 1820 or 1825 (my sources conflict), but a complete edition containing all the volumes was published in 1837 in London by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, Paternoster-Row.

The second can be found on page 275 of Mandate for Change by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963).
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