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There Are 20,000 Million Books I Could Have To Read, But I Can Pick The Ones And Know That I'm Learning Something That I Didn't Know Before. That's The Glory Of Writing. It's Not Even So Much The Writing, It's What You Learn - Especially History - Because So Much Of It Is Research.

-Doris Kearns Goodwin

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There Are 20,000 Million Books I Could

Doris Kearns Goodwin

There Are 20,000 Million Books I Could Have To Read, But I Can Pick The Ones And Know That I'm Learning Something That I Didn't Know Before. That's The Glory Of Writing. It's Not Even So Much The Writing, It's What You Learn - Especially History - Because So Much Of It Is Research.

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