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Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

Jill Lepore
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"Look It Up: Shelving the Encyclopedia Britannica" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.