“It seemed to me that I had no right to burn a book I hadn't even read.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day
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English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593Related quotes
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e temo, et spero; et ardo, et son un ghiaccio.
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