The smaller class of the two consists of the books written by people who had something to say. They had in life learned something, or seen something, or done something, which they really wanted and needed to tell to other people. They told it.

— Edward Everett Hale How To Do It (1871)

More quotes by Edward Everett Hale

Ten Times One is Ten (1870)

How To Do It (1871)

The Man Without a Country (1863)

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