Carolina QuotesThe only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Speech in Kansas City (12 May 1905), PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 16:99 — Unsourced variant: I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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