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Daemon		Posted: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 12:00:00 AM
Rank: Advanced Member Joined: 3/7/2009 Posts: 33,659 Neurons: 100,155 Location: Inside Farlex computers		Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
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jcbarros		Posted: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 9:17:03 PM
Rank: Advanced Member Joined: 5/14/2010 Posts: 2,425 Neurons: 13,974		A book (a good one) is the best friend a man can have.
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