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“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.”

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John Bright
John Bright

John Bright was a prominent British statesman born on November 16, 1811, in Lancashire, England, and died on March 27, 1889. He was a leading figure in the Liberal Party and is known for his oratory skills and reformist policies during his time in Parliament. more

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