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Jack Woodford

When the publisher steps out of his legitimate function as a packager and forwarder, he cures people by the millions of the habit of reading books, just as real schoolmarms make windrows of brats permanently allergic to literature by cracking them over the head with the worst of it.

Jack Woodford, The Loud Literary Lamas of New York (1950), p. 47.

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