And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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ReplyDeleteCan never have enough books.
ReplyDeleteAmen! No TV, no Computer, no phone - just as my Grandfather, a self-made-man would have it. Learning from the masters of days gone by.
DeleteI guess, as long as you reread them...Otherwise it's just another form of decore.
DeleteIt's not hoarding if it's books.
ReplyDeleteOr tools...
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