Any individual who has learned to love good books, to love the best newspapers, the best magazines, and has learned to spend some portion of the day in communication with them, is a happy individual.
Washington describes the joy and fulfillment that comes from engaging with quality literature and media.
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By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
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