| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36872 |
| QUOTATION: | A reading machine, always wound up and going, He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Russell Lowell (18191891), U.S. poet, editor. A Fable for Critics. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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