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It is probably not unfair to say that many tens of thousands of volumes are published at which no human being ever looks and for which there is no real demand whatever.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He comments on the vast number of books published that go unread and serve no real purpose.

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