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Carl Sandburg Quotes: A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
         

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.


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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

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