Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture!… - Horace Mann

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Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann (4 May 1796 – 2 August 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist

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