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It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that

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"It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him"

- Jim Bishop

Impossible Father Mother

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This quote is written / told by Jim Bishop between November 21, 1907 and 1987. He/she was a famous Journalist from USA. The author also have 14 other quotes.

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