"What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times."
— John Bright

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Speech in Birmingham Town Hall (1 June 1882), quoted in William Robertson, Life and Times of the Right Hon. John Bright (1883), p. 522