26 books
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22 voters
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Answer me this, if your TV wasn’t broken in the first place then why do you need a
new one? If your clothes still fit and aren’t rags falling off you, why do you need
more clothes? If your phone still does what it does, why do you need the newest
brand out there? I could go on with these examples, but you get the gist. If it isn’t
broken then why fix it? I just had to throw one more in there for ya.
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― Health & Not Screwing It Up
― Health & Not Screwing It Up
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We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books, but they grew up in the Depression, aware of the quicksilver nature of money, and they learned the hard way that you shouldn't buy what you could borrow. Because of that frugality, or perhaps independent of it, they also believed that you read a book for the experience of reading it.
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― The Library Book
― The Library Book
