In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a stea… - Georges Duhamel

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In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

Georges Duhamel

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Georges Duhamel (June 30, 1884 – April 13, 1966), was a French author.

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Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture.

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