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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 29149 |
| QUOTATION: | The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Dean Howells (1837–1920), U.S. novelist, critic. Letter, April 6, 1903, to editor Charles Eliot Norton. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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