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(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson

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The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.
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Speech in Kansas City (12 May 1905), PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 16:99.
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Unsourced variant: I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

 
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