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Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) - Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories
There is much truth in the saying that "old things are best, old books are best, old friends are best." We like to connect in thought our best-loved books and our best-loved friends. A good friend must have some of the wisdom of a good book, though good books often talk to us with wisdom and also with humor and courtesy greater than any living friend may show. "Sometimes we think books are the best friends; they never interrupt or contradict or criticise us." Every year in our own country about ten thousand books are published. Most of them die in early life. Three hundred years from now every one of this year's ten thousand books will be dead and forgotten, except possibly thirty or forty. The very best books do not die young. The books written about three hundred years ago that are read to-daylike Shakespeare's playsare as a rule the books that deserve to live forever. And, "Gentle Reader," if you are wise you will see why the old books are best: they are the wheat, and the winds of time have blown only the chaff away. Is it not strange that in the olden times so few poems or books or stories were written for children? The "Iliad," the stories of King Arthur, the "Canterbury Tales," and "Gulliver's Travels" and "Robinson Crusoe," were written for men and women. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 15560
Author: Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Release Date: Apr 6, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English
Editor: Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916
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