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Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th Century.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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