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If it's fun to take books from the bookcase,      If you really believe it's worth while     To carry them out to the kitchen      And build them all up in a pile,     Why isn't it just as agreeable then     To carry them back to the bookcase again?     If it's fun to make marks with a pencil      In books that one cares for a heap;     To tear out the pages from volumes      One likes and is anxious to keep,     Why isn't it pleasure to put on the hummer     A magazine read and discarded last summer?

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