Sandburrs
By Alfred Henry Lewis
14 Apr, 2020
A sandburr is a foolish, small vegetable, irritating and grievously useless. Therefore this volume of sketches is named sandburrs. Some folk there be who apologize for the birth of a book. There's scant propriety of it. A book is but a legless, dorma
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A sandburr is a foolish, small vegetable, irritating and grievously useless. Therefore this volume of sketches is named sandburrs. Some folk there be who apologize for the birth of a book. There's scant propriety of it. A book is but a legless, dormant creature. The public has but to let it alone to be safe. And a book, withal! Is its own punishment. Less