“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Matagorda/The First Fast Draw
“There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.”
Source: Taxation No Tyranny https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Taxation_No_Tyranny (1775)
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