A Quote by Abraham Lincoln on books

I feel the need of reading.  It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books...  Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Abraham Lincoln : American statesman (16th President: 1861-65), assassinated following Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Source: Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith & Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President
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