"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to ...
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
~ Jane Austen ~
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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
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