The Glade 4.0

Free. Free is always good, right?

*Almost* complete set (missing 1, 23, 29, and 30, sadly) of the 1956 Encyclopedia Americana:

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Please tell me those aren't sitting on our table...

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I'm going to go with fail ...

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...and with that, I'm leaning toward fail.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Sadly, I may have to agree with fail. Unless, of course, you are interested in a look back into the past and how things were documented then.

Otherwise, yeah, fail.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Is this going to be a new punishment for the kids? Book reports on the discovery of the Minamata disease?

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Hahaha!!
Actually, I had the crazy idea of putting them on top of the cabinets in the kitchen, since there's a bunch of stark, bare, empty space up there...sort of like a decoration.
Can I blame it on Farsky? I saw his B&N leather-bound collection on his bookshelf interspersed with pretty things and figured I'd do the same thing with the top of the empty cabinets...just without having to spend $$ to do it?

I dunno. Could still be a fail, haha! At least it didn't cost me anything though!
Or rather, more importantly, NF IT DIDN'T COST YOU ANYTHING, lol!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Might not be bad thing. 56' was a big year for Elvis. Is volume E in there?

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I'll vote 'score'.

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They're quite attractive as decorations, if nothing else, so yeah, I vote 'score.'

Also, bonus points if one of your kids comes in and says "Wow, those are some old Wikipedias!"

Good visual example. "Kids, this was the internet back in our day. Minus the porn."

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

ROFL!!! I'm gonna go search through those and find a picture of a naked aborigine just to prove you wrong!!!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I'm going to vote "structural fail". Of the table.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Cut out a hole in the pages...and use them to hide valuables?

I go for score!

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

I'll say a tentative score, unless you can come up with the missing 4 books.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I emailed the lady who gave them to me...she is pretty sure the other 4 got thrown away, unfortunately.

They do look pretty good on top of my cabinets though.

I say SCORE! because old books are cool, especially when free!

(Why would anyone throw away a book??? Does not compute!)

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

They suit your need and the price was right. What's not to score?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I'm willing to wager that you can track down the four missing volumes over time.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Old encyclopedias are fun because of the history. Looking at what they thought was important back then. Also look at the new technology of today and see what they have to say about the precursor technologies.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Score def score.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I'd say display them if you have some naked shelves, but if you needed to move, I'd suggest pitching them before you put the effort into moving them.

Cause if *I* had to fetch and carry those, it'd be FAIL.

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In time, this too shall pass.