Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

Barbara W. Tuchman
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  1. A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

  2. Everything interested him and everything excited him.

  3. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and...

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