LITERATURE AS AN INVESTMENT.
"Pictures and books have saved me more money than anything eliso," said if. .J. Williomo, a lawyer, who was looking in at the window of .» picture store the other day. "Why, ■how's that?" /enquired a man who hud stopped to speak to bun. "Pictures and books have wasted a lot of my money, ejjnecwJJy book*." "Don't say waated," the lawyer exclaimed, "rfot unje«s you bought awfully bad pictnre.i and books. Money spent fot a good book or a good picture was never wasted. I r.ravor pass a picture store without stopping nnd feasting my artistic eonso upon what I see there in the window. Even that little glanc? ia au uplift, and makes mo better. ' "At my honw," be continued, 'I have a great many good pictures and Homo go6d books. And I spend my evening* with them. I never care any more to come out al; night to hear a»y of the grtat speakers! my booke and picture* speak to mo more and better things than any politician could j and the lcoson my books and pictures teach mo is better than, the sermon of any preacher I know of : and tho entertainment they givo me is jbetteT tb*n any I ha.ye.ever been aplo to find at ai\y theatre."— K«nao6 City •6tw..
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 28, 2 February 1907, Page 13
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217LITERATURE AS AN INVESTMENT. Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 28, 2 February 1907, Page 13
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