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Bookishness mood: amused music: Princess Bride: Storybook Love
Bookishness gailcarriger 2005
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Bookishness, literature, has a place in the affairs of a nation, but it contributes only a side in its manifold activities.
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Bookishness is probably a bad sign in a girl; it suggests artificiality, pedantry, the lugging of dead knowledge.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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