• Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809-1894
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1. fruits
2. world
3. youth

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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