Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his chil… - Horace Mann

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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

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

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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

A HOUSE WITHOUT BOOKS IS LIKE A ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS

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The intellectual and moral nature of man is the one thing precious in the sight of God; and therefore, until this nature is cultivated, and enlightened, and purified, neither opulence, nor power, nor learning, nor genius, nor domestic sanctity, nor the holiness of God's altars, can ever be safe. Until the immortal and god-like capacities of every being that comes iuto the world are deemed more worthy, are watched more tenderly than any other thing, no dynasty of men, or form of government, can stand, or shall stand, upon the face of the earth; and the force or the fraud which would seek to uphold them, shall be but "as fetters of flax to bind the flame."

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