“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”
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Source: Selected Letters
“I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.”
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 2, Protocols of Wealth, p. 56
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